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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)



Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

Class: Aves
Family: Threskiornithidae
Common Name: Glossy Ibis
Genus: Plegadis
Species Name: falcinellus

About The Glossy Ibis

Breeding adult differs from breeding adult white-faced ibis by olive-brown (vs. reddish) bill, brown (vs. red) eyes, gray-green legs with red joints (vs. all-red legs), and lack of a white feathered area adjacent to facial skin; also, in glossy ibis, pale edge of gray facial skin does not extend behind eye or under chin (white-faced ibis adult has white behind eye and under chin). Winter adult differs from winter adult white-faced ibis in usually having a pale line between the eye and bill (line absent in white-faced). In first fall plaumage, indistinguishable from immature white-faced ibis (NGS 1983).



Rights Holder: NatureServe

Trips Where Observed

Africa: Eastern and Southern
Africa: Egypt and Ethiopia
Colombia - Santa Marta
Eastern Australia
India
Indonesia
Kenya Solar Eclipse
Mexico to Panama
Puerto Rico
Uganda and stops between

Member Lifelists

Africa
Asia
Australasia
India
New Jersey
North America
Southern Ocean
United States
World

Sites Where Observed

Location
Date
Notes
3/9/2016
Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

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