Glossy Ibis Images

Glossy Ibis Images, Facts and Information:

Plegadis falcinellus

• Glossy Ibises are medium-sized wading birds with long, down-curved bills, slender necks, dark bodies that shine with iridescent maroon, purple, bronze and green, long legs, and reddish eyes. In breeding plumage, they show a reddish-brown head, neck and body with glossy wings.
• Glossy Ibis are year round residents, short distance migrators and long distance migrators. Populations are resident in parts of the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Africa. Breeding populations occur along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, scattered wetlands in the interior U.S., and southern Europe. Northern breeders migrate south in winter to the southern U.S., Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and South Asia.
• Glossy Ibises thrive in shallow wetlands including freshwater and brackish marshes, flooded fields, mudflats, swamps, lagoons, coastal estuaries, and mangrove edges.
• Glossy Ibises eat insects, small fish, frogs, crustaceans, snails, leeches and aquatic larvae.
• Glossy Ibises lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 20 to 23 days. Both parents incubate and they are colonial nesters.
• A group of ibises can be called a “congregation”, “stand”, “colony” or “wedge” of ibises.
• The oldest known Glossy Ibis was 21 years old.

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