Home Log Out
Birdpedia - Australia         | Home | Birds | Calendar | Reserves | Field Trips | Sightings | Reports | Contacts | [HBW - BirdLife (v3)] 04/05/2024 11:18:20 AM
Species Database
Find
Quick Links
News
 
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] Print... Email... 

 LC    White Ibis* Id (Atlas):
    Eudocimus albus

Description (10)
Image of White Ibis
 

Other Names (World)
White Ibis, American White Ibis

Family
Threskiornithidae (Ibises, Spoonbills)

Size
56 - 71 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Inland wetlands. From sea-level - 50 m.

Range (Guide)
Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, French Guiana, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Baja California east to northern Carolina and south through Mexico, central America and Greater Antilles to Colombia, north-western Venezuela, western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 150,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (67)...)

 
American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) [XC531987]
     by Russ Wigh from Topolobampo, Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (call, flight call)

 
American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) [XC460856]
     by Isain Contreras Rodr\u00edguez from Sand Point Park, Titusville, Brevard Co, Florida, United States (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber). A recent proposal is that they be merged into a single species on basis of close morphological and ecological similiraties and relatively frequent natural hybridization in zone of overlap in Venezuela. Another view is that they may simply be color morphs.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • albus (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern United States south through Central America and the Greater Antilles to north-western South America.
  • ramobustorum Patten, 2012   -  Northern South America.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) - 10 files


More Information

BirdLife International

For more information about the White Ibis see... Show Articles BirdLife International Species Factsheet.


Articles about the White Ibis

If you would like to read any articles about the White Ibis... Show Articles Show Articles (0)


No Pictures of White Ibis

If Birdpedia has no pictures of White Ibis or you would like to see more, then try the following...

      Show External Images from BING From BING (10)


No Videos of White Ibis

If Birdpedia has no videos of White Ibis or you would like to see more, then try the following..

      Show External Videos From BING (0)