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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
Length: about 19".
Photographed on May 23, 2005, along the refuge's Wildlife Loop (map) at the Snow Goose Pool. The glossy ibis is common in spring and fall and abundant in winter.
Glossy Ibis {Plegadis falcinellus}
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Glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellus
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Length: 19 inches Wingspan: 37 inches
Sexes similar
Medium-sized long-legged long-necked wader
Bill long, dark gray, and decurved
Dark brown eye
Holds neck extended in flight ...
Glossy Ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus )
Glossy Ibis, Aransas And Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuge, Near Hopper's Landing, Texas
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellus
The Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a world-wide species which is locally distributed in many areas. It occurs in the extreme eastern United States with a few wandering west to Texas in some seasons.
Glossy Ibis weigh about 1.2 pounds and measure 23 inches, with a 36-inch wingspan. Once called the “Black Curlew,' the Glossy Ibis is a medium-sized, dark wading bird with a long, decurved bill.
The glossy ibis is about 20 inches tall with a wingspan of about three feet. It has a long, dark gray bill that is curved down. It has dark purple to black feathers on its head, neck, back and belly.
Glossy Ibis
(Plegadis falcinellus)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1999
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Glossy Ibis
(Plegadis falcinellus)
Photo © David Sarkozi 1994
Last updated 5/19/96 Glossy Ibis are rare, but a couple are found by observant birders every year.
GLOSSY IBIS.
[Glossy Ibis.]
IBIS FALCINELLUS, Linn.
[Plegadis falcinellus.] ...
Winter Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) at Mattamuskeet NWR, Hyde Co., NC ...
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus - Adult in flight from below
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Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus. Breeder. Uncommon in Gulf Coast region in spring, summer, and fall, but occasional in other regions during those seasons. Found in marshes, on mudflats, and along shores of large bodies of water.
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Ducks, Geese, Swans
Black Swan Cygnus atratus ...
With Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India.
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY 16 Apr
White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan
Black Vultre Coragyps atratus: Gloucester County, NJ, 07 Mar ...
In the west we have the White-faced Ibis, Plegadis chihi, which is quite similar to the Glossy Ibis (P. falcinellus) seen in the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard. On the Gulf Coast they have both, which complicates matters.
Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
Wandering glider (Pantala flavescens)
Laughing dove (Stigmatopelia senegalensis)
Ovampo sparrowhawk (Accipiter ovampensis)
Bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus) ...
Remarks Slightly larger than the Glossy Ibis; white with black outer primaries; legs, long curved bill, and face are orange-red. Immatures: Dark wings and dusky head and neck.
It is very similar in appearance to the Glossy Ibis except during the breeding season when the White-faced Ibis has a narrow border of white feathers all around its bare facial skin at the base of the bill.
Species in this family:
Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja)
White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) ...
The white-faced ibis overlaps with other ibises only in coastal Texas and Louisiana. It is often mistaken for the Glossy Ibis, another dark-feathered wading bird.
Threskiornithidae(plataleidae)
Plegadis falcinellus. Glossy ibis
Threskiornis molucca. Australian white ibis
Platalea regia. Kotuku-ngatupapa. Royal spoonbill ...
No ibises are regular in the UK, but one species, the glossy ibis, appears in some years as a stray from southern Europe.
Puna Ibis Plegadis ridgwayi
Described by: Allen (1876)
Alternate common name(s): Andean Glossy Ibis
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Uses yellow feet to stir mud to flush prey. Occ feeds following Glossy Ibis (or other species) and capturing food stirred up by ibis. Communal roost at night when not breeding, oft moving to and from roost in flocks.
In the southern part of North America are found the white ibis, Eudocimus albus; the white-faced and eastern glossy ibises, Plegadis falcinellus; and a bird that was formerly called the wood ibis, which is really a stork.
 See also: Ibis, Heron, Purple, Spoonbill, White Ibis
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