#1331 · 🐦 birds

White-faced Ibis

🇳🇱 Witmaskeribis ·Plegadis chihi

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kahio Tiberio Mazon · CC0
3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Don · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mary K. Hanson · CC BY 4.0
7. © alexsngai · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © dlbowls · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Leonardo Hernández Escudero · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The white-faced ibis ( Plegadis chihi ) is a wading bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 40,555iNaturalist observations
weight 679 gadult, 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.
40,555 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 679 g.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817 (209 years ago).