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The Glossy Flowerpiercer is found in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
It is a wonderful and unique looking bird that has a specialized bill used for drinking nectar from the flowers and it is also know to eat small invertebrates. This small fella moves very quickly and are mainly solitary. We captured this image high up in The Andean Mountains while searching for hummingbirds but they are also found down at lower elevations as well.
Again this was taken in the dense forests of the Andean Mountains which always proves to be a bit of a challenge because of the low lighting. It was definitely a thrill to see this species.
To say that a Glossy Ibis came close to the Somerset Wildlife Trust hide at Catcott this week would be a bit of an understatement.
What a bird!
Courtship display of an adult Glossy Ibis in breeding plumage. Photo taken in the wild at Sweetwater Wetlands Park.
It is difficult to know exactly how many Glossy Ibises have occurred in Britain as birds can wander widely, and stay for a long time. My first two sightings involved two birds that wandered around Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent from 1975 to 1992, though their favourite spot was Stodmarsh in Kent. They are smaller than most people expect, only about the size of a Curlew. There were lots of Moorhens feeding on the marshy grassland at St Aidans and it didn't stand out as being noticeably larger than these when scanning with binoculars. This view in the sunshine shows the green and bronze gloss on the wings that gave rise to its name, though prior to 1812 (Pennant) it was known as Black Ibis. Its scientific name Plegadis falcinellus comes from the Greek and Latin words for a sickle, from the bill shape, though Falcinellus (Latin for little sickle) was an Italian name for Glossy Ibis.
The ancient Greek authors recognised three different types of ibis; Glossy, Sacred and Bald. Fredrick Hasselqvist (1722-52) was a student of Linnaeus and then became one of his "apostles". Hasselqvist visited the Middle East (Asia Minor, Cyprus, Egypt and Palestine) to assist Linnaeus who regretted the lack of information from this region. During his time in Egypt his local guide persuaded him that the Cattle Egret was actually the Sacred Ibis of Ancient Egypt. Hasselqvist died on the way home from his trip but his papers reached Linnaeus, who perpetuated the myth by bestowing the scientific name ibis on the Cattle Egret; Ardea ibis (now Bubulcus ibis).
lucky with the glossy ibis they had been sitting a long way off then they got up and flew past me thats good timing
Photographed in the Northlakes Wood Stork Colony and nesting area in Tampa, Florida.
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Several days of rain turned a corner of a field into a puddle-pond, attracting ducks, geese, and about a dozen Glossy Ibis.
Cape May, NJ - mid-May 2016
My first Glossy Ibis. Sorry, could not resist posting this sequence of six shots of it running. It was feeding in amongst a flock of Wigeon.
Pett pools, Pett, East sussex . Feeding with the coots on a very windy day even wth the tripod getting some shake hence the photo quality
Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) - The 2-way section of Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Titusville, Florida
Like dowitchers, snipe, and armadillos, these guys are so busy working their heads that there's an element of luck in getting a pose with their head & beak out where you can see them, so it's pretty much rip and hope with these guys.
Glossy Ibis Rookery.
Sacramento is on the Pacific flyway so we are treated to many species of migratory birds. This was a treat though as I have not been able to photograph the glossy ibis before a few days ago.
Taken with a 400mm F4 DO IS and 1.4 TC. DOF is almost non existent at 5.6 and this distance (about 30'). The focus DOF was only about 18".