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American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)   Celestun Biosphere Reserve🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesThreskiornithidae
Birds

🦩American White Ibis

Eudocimus albus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Íbis-branca-americana ou íbis-branco-americano (nome científico: Eudocimus albus) é uma espécie de ave pelicaniforme pertencente à família Threskiornithidae. Pode ser encontrado desde a Carolina do Norte até o norte do Peru, passando por todo o litoral do Caribe, preferindo regiões de manguezais. Nidifica por toda a região onde habita. Essa espécie de íbis em particular tem tamanho médio e plumagem branca. Apresenta bico curvado de cor vermelha ou laranja vivo, tendo ainda pernas longas e asas negras que geralmente são visíveis apenas quando ela voa. Os machos são maiores e tem bicos mais longos que as fêmeas.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
White Ibis
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.89 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American White Ibis

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.89 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female764 kgWikidataQ589171
  • Male1.04 kgWikidataQ589171

Figures vary

  • 0.94 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.1 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.28 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.14 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
28 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
22 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American White Ibis yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyThreskiornithidae
  6. ›genusEudocimus
  7. ›speciesEudocimus albus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyThreskiornithidae
  4. genusEudocimus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyThreskiornithidae
  11. genusEudocimus
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Ibis blanc (ca), ibis bílý (cs), Hvid Ibis (da), Schneesichler (de), Eudocimus albus (es), valkoiibis (fi) … and 24 more languages
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