Australian White Ibis
CommonGBIF 4.6·Dongniao Rarity Index7.54
英文名：Australian White Ibis(学名：Threskiornis molucca），是鹈形目鹮科白鹮属的鸟类。亦被称为‘澳洲白鹮’。其特征为白色羽毛搭配裸露的黑色头部和长而弯曲的黑色喙。广泛分布于澳洲北部、东南部和西南部，是澳洲大型涉禽中唯一适应城市生活的种类。近年来，由于其在城市中的显著增加，成为了澳大利亚东部海岸地区的标志性物种
Australian White Ibis
65-76 cm; span to 1.25 m. White with bare black head and ibis-bill; black tips to flight feathers.
- Other names
- Sacred Ibis, Australian Ibis, Australian Sacred Ibis
- Breeding
- pink marks on black neck, yellowish breast plumes, bare scarlet skin on underwing; lacelike wing plumes over yellowish white tail. Female smaller; bill shorter. Immature: bill shorter, straighter; feathered black on head and neck; no wing plumes. Singles to large flocks: feeds in pastures, freshwater wetlands, tidal areas; plumage often soiled. Flies in undulating lines or Vs with quick wingbeats and glides, often with Straw-neckeds; flocks wheel high.
- Voice
- harsh barks, shouts.
- Habitat
- freshwater wetlands, irrigated areas; margins of dams, floodplains, brackish and saline wetlands, tidal mudflats; pastures, lawns, orchards, garbage tips, public gardens.
- Breeding
- June-Dec., s. Aust.; Sept.-April n. NSW-s. Q.
- Nest
- compact shallow cup of sticks, reeds, etc.; in colonies, some large, over water in dense trees; on island; in trampled reeds, cumbungi, lignum, mangroves; artificial structures in town environs.
- Eggs
- 2-4; white, dirty.
- Range & Status
- e., se. and n. Aust.; recent expansion to Tas. and sw. WA. Most breed in Murrumbidgee-Murray Valley (NSW), Vic. and se. SA. Some colonies to 10,000+: smaller in n. Aust. Has benefited from establishment of pastures, farm dams. Sedentary; dispersive. Also NG. Vagrant NZ.
