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Plegadis falcinellus Syracuse🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesThreskiornithidae
Birds

🦩Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Bronsibis (Plegadis falcinellus) är en våtmarkslevande fågel och den geografiskt mest spridda arten inom familjen ibisar.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/99th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

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

Everything we know about the Glossy Ibis

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

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

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

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

Beak length
0.12 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
27 years
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data quality: high

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

Gestation
21 days
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data quality: high

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

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: high

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

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.6 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 Glossy 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. ›genusPlegadis
  7. ›speciesPlegadis falcinellus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyThreskiornithidae
  4. genusPlegadis
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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. genusPlegadis
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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Eurasian Spoonbill — last shared an ancestor ≈ 47 million years ago.
In other languages
Ibis kasztanowaty (pl), מגלן חום מצוי (he), Ibis falcinelle (fr), Plegadis falcinellus (es), batla (hu), Plegadis falcinellus (it) … and 26 more languages
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