Northern Bld Ibis Spring flowers (Geronticus eremita)_9943
Unique blackish ibis with wonderful iridescent plumage in adult birds. Has a bare red face and throat and long quills form a raggedy mane. Short legs do not project beyond the tail in flight. (Unlike Glossy Ibis). Breeds in colonies on cliff ledges in semidesert regions; forages in open dry habitats. Critically Endangered with most remaining birds in and around Tamri, coastal Morocco; migratory eastern populations in Syria and Turkey all but extinct.
Historically bred in central and southern Europe. This photo is of a re-introduced and sedentary free flying breeding colony around Barbate, Cadiz Province, Andalucia, southern Spain.
Northern Bld Ibis Spring flowers (Geronticus eremita)_9943
Unique blackish ibis with wonderful iridescent plumage in adult birds. Has a bare red face and throat and long quills form a raggedy mane. Short legs do not project beyond the tail in flight. (Unlike Glossy Ibis). Breeds in colonies on cliff ledges in semidesert regions; forages in open dry habitats. Critically Endangered with most remaining birds in and around Tamri, coastal Morocco; migratory eastern populations in Syria and Turkey all but extinct.
Historically bred in central and southern Europe. This photo is of a re-introduced and sedentary free flying breeding colony around Barbate, Cadiz Province, Andalucia, southern Spain.