Large, long-legged wading bird with a football-shaped body and a long, curved bill. Adults have white bodies, bright red legs, a bare patch of red skin around the eye, and a red bill.
Immature birds are a patchwork of white and brown with a pink bill and legs.
Large wading bird with a curved bill. Juveniles are brown above with a paler brown streaky neck and white below. Juveniles have an orangish pink bill.
Flies with its neck out straight and its legs trailing behind. Note black wingtips.
Mixed flocks of adult and immature individuals form in coastal and inland habitats, such as marshes and mangrove swamps.
Heavy-bodied wading bird with broad wings. Immatures in flight are white below with brown primaries and secondaries.
Probes for insects and crustaceans beneath the surface of wetlands with their long curved bill. Note pale blue eye of adult birds.
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White Ibises are large wading birds with football-shaped bodies. They have long legs and a long neck that they hold out straight in flight. Their bill is long and curved.
Larger than a Cattle Egret, smaller than a Great Egret.
crow-sizedIbises and Spoonbills(Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Threskiornithidae)
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