The Roseate Spoonbill is the only spoonbill in the New World. It is also the only pink member of the six species family.

It is found from the southern USA to northern Argentina but is generally absent from the west coast of South America except in Ecuador and northern Peru. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

The population of Roseate Spoonbills is declining in the Pantanal due to predation of eggs and chicks by the Crested Caracara Polyborus plancus. The Spoonbill is less able to defend its nest from the Caracara than the sharper billed herons and storks.