#1037 · 🐦 birds

White Ibis

🇳🇱 Witte Ibis ·Eudocimus albus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The American white ibis ( Eudocimus albus ) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal New World tropics. This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 101,694iNaturalist observations
weight 1 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
101,694 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs up to about 1 kg.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).