Roseate Spoonbills
The roseate spoonbill (''Platalea ajaja'') is a gregarious Wader, wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South and North America. Taxonomy The roseate spoonbill is sometimes placed in its own genus - ''Ajaia''. A 2010 study of mitochondrial DNA of the spoonbills by Chesser and colleagues found that the roseate and yellow-billed spoonbills were each other's closest relatives, and the two were descended from an early offshoot from the ancestors of the other four spoonbill species. They felt the genetic evidence meant it was equally valid to consider all six to be classified within the genus ''Spoonbill, Platalea'' or alternatively the two placed in the Monotypic taxon, monotypic genera ''Platibis'' and ''Ajaia'', respectively. However, as the six species were so similar morphologically, keeping them within the one genus made more sense. Description The roseate spoonbill is long, with a wingspan and a body mass of . The ...
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Catazajá
Catazajá is a town and one of the 122 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... It covers an area of 621 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 17,140, up from 15,709 as of 2005. As of 2010, the town of Catazajá had a population of 2,973. Other than the town of Catazajá, the municipality had 249 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Punta Arena (1,365) and Loma Bonita (1,071), classified as rural. References Municipalities of Chiapas {{Chiapas-geo-stub ...
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