{"id":119572,"date":"2024-01-08T05:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=119572"},"modified":"2024-01-08T05:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:11:05","slug":"white-faced-ibis-do-overwinter-at-bear-river-mbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/01\/08\/white-faced-ibis-do-overwinter-at-bear-river-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"White-faced Ibis Do Overwinter At Bear River MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s Day, I photographed two small flocks of White-faced Ibis at Bear River MBR. It isn’t unusual at all for this ibis species to overwinter at the refuge.<\/p>\n

\"WinterWinter White-faced Ibis at Bear River MBR \u2013 Nikon D500, f11, 1\/500, ISO 1250, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, since temperatures dropped to freezing or below, there hasn’t been a single time that I have gone to the refuge where I haven’t seen White-faced Ibis. I’ve been seeing the ibis on the western side of the auto tour loop and on the last leg of it.<\/p>\n

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On New Year’s Day, the small flock of ibis I saw on the west side of the auto tour route had at least eight ibis. There may have been more that I couldn’t see hiding in the marsh vegetation.<\/p>\n

Most of the ibis were resting or preening, but one was foraging for food in the open water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"White-facedWhite-faced Ibis Davis and Box Elder County eBird graph<\/span><\/p>\n

I did a screenshot of an eBird graph for White-faced Ibis sightings for Box Elder and Davis Counties. The graph shows that this ibis species is observed year-round in those two counties. I included Davis County because Farmington Bay WMA is located there, and I have observed overwintering White-faced Ibis at the WMA as well.<\/p>\n

\"TwoTwo White-faced Ibis overwintering at Bear River MBR \u2013 Nikon D500, f8, 1\/4000, ISO 1250, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

White-faced Ibis are tougher than they look. While the majority of these ibis that nest at Bear River MBR<\/span><\/a> and the marshes surrounding the Great Salt Lake do migrate for the winter, some stick around even in the low temps, ice, and snow. I am always happy to see and photograph the winter White-faced Ibis that I find.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my White-faced Ibis photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s Day, I photographed two small flocks of White-faced Ibis at Bear River MBR. It isn’t unusual at all for this ibis species to overwinter at the refuge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,27,1148,26,1372],"tags":[9316,14621,3721,5148,4064,4094,5511,6946,1373,313,3996,4095,4340,373,817],"class_list":["post-119572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","category-white-faced-ibises","tag-ebird","tag-graph","tag-ibis","tag-ibises","tag-ice","tag-marsh","tag-overwinter","tag-overwintering","tag-plegadis-chihi1","tag-wading-birds","tag-water","tag-wetlands","tag-white-faced-ibis","tag-winter","tag-wintering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t