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Morito común (Plegadis falcinellus)
Glossy ibis
Picambau/Morín en la lengua madre.
Parque natural s'Albufera de Mallorca.
While out enjoying the rookery at Shoveler Pond at Anahuac NWR this morning I was pleased to spot this Glossy Ibis flying past. I know there are Glossy Ibis nesting in the rookery but it is great to have such a nice photo opportunity of one.
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Plegadis falcinellus
The Glossy Ibis can look dark and drab but catching it with the sun glistening of of the feathers brings out the beauty. This can be a beautiful bird and is not photographed often.
Non-breeding adult Glossy Ibis moves among the shallows in search of a morsel. Another new find for me on this southern trip.
Merritt Island NWA, FL
My first shots of a Glossy Ibis in breeding colours. Breeding adults have reddish-brown bodies and shiny bottle-green wings. Non-breeders and juveniles have duller bodies.
Juvenile Glossy Ibis at the rookery -
New Jersey, USA
This was a common scene last season, at the New Jersey’s own heron rookery, to see these young birds posing nicely for photographs. Numbers of nesting Glossy Ibises increased dramatically compared to 2019. I wonder what this season will bring?
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The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a water bird in the order Pelecaniformes and the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek plegados and Latin, falcis, both meaning "sickle" and referring to the distinctive shape of the bill.
Glossy ibises feed in very shallow water and nest in freshwater or brackish wetlands with tall dense stands of emergent vegetation such as reeds, papyrus or rushes) and low trees or bushes. They show a preference for marshes at the margins of lakes and rivers but can also be found at lagoons, flood-plains, wet meadows, swamps, reservoirs, sewage ponds, paddies and irrigated farmland. When using farmlands in western India, glossy ibis exhibited strong scale-dependent use of the landscape seasonally preferring using areas with >200 ha of wetlands during the summer, and using areas that had intermediate amounts of wetlands (50-100 ha) in the other seasons. It is less commonly found in coastal locations such as estuaries, deltas, salt marshes and coastal lagoons. Preferred roosting sites are normally in large trees which may be distant from the feeding areas.
Glossy ibises undertake dispersal movements after breeding and are highly nomadic. The more northerly populations are fully migratory and travel on a broad front, for example across the Sahara Desert. Glossy ibis ringed in the Black Sea seem to prefer the Sahel and West Africa to winter, those ringed in the Caspian Sea have been found to move to East Africa, the Arabian peninsula and as far east as Pakistan and India. Numbers of glossy ibis in western India varied dramatically seasonally with the highest numbers being seen in the winter and summers, and drastically declining in the monsoon likely indicating local movements to a suitable area to breed. Populations in temperate regions breed during the local spring, while tropical populations nest to coincide with the rainy season. Nesting is often in mixed-species colonies. When not nesting, flocks of over 100 individuals may occur on migration, and during the winter or dry seasons the species is usually found foraging in small flocks. Glossy ibises often roost communally at night in large flocks, with other species, occasionally in trees which can be some distance from wetland feeding areas.
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