{{Taxobox
 | color       = pink
 | name        = Kōtuku ngutupapa
 | image       = Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) -Fogg Dam2.jpg
 | image_width = 225px
 | status      = LC
 | regnum      = [[Kararehe|Animalia]]
 | phylum      = [[Angaroto|Chordata]]
 | classis     = [[Manu|Aves]]
 | ordo        = [[Ciconiiformes]]
 | familia     = [[Threskiornithidae]]
 | genus       = ''[[Platalea]]''
 | species     = '''''P. regia'''''
 | binomial    = ''Platalea regia''
 | binomial_authority = [[John Gould|Gould]], 1838
}}

[[File:Gouldauroyallg.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Whakaahua nā John Gould]]Ko te '''Kōtuku ngutupapa''' he manu nui, he manu waimāori o [[Aotearoa]], [[Ahitereiria]], me [[Papua Nūkini]]. Ko ngā ngutu o tēnei kōtuku, he whānui, he paraha, he mangū. He mangū anō ngā waewae. Hoki rawa ki Ōkārito paopao ai.

Ko te ingoa pūtaiao he ''Platalea regia''. Ko te ingoa Pākehā he ''Royal Spoonbill''.

== Tohutoro ==
* Robertson, C J R. (Etita), 1985. ''Reader's Digest Complete Book of New Zealand Birds''. Poihākena: Reader's Digest. 

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