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© Walter
Bauer, Sugar Land, Texas - 1998
Field
Marks: A medium-sized white wading birds with red legs, red faces,
and long decurved bills. Tips of wings (four outer primaries) black. Young birds
are dark grayish brown with white bellies and show conspicuous white rumps. The
top picture is a mature white ibis and the lower picture of an immature white
ibis.
Voice: Occasional grunting sounds
however normally silent.
Where found: Southeast United States
south to Peru.
Texas: Resident along the coast,
breeding locally. In summer, occasionally to eastern, central and northern
Texas.
Habitat: Marshes, swamps, and rice fields.
Nest: A stick platform in tree in swamp or on island; in a colony. Their eggs are blotched. They lay between 3-5.