(Credit: U. S. Geological Survey)

White Ibis - Eudocimus albus

Identification Tips:

  1. Length: 22 inches Wingspan: 38 inches
  2. Sexes similar
  3. Medium-sized long-legged long-necked wading bird
  4. Long, decurved bill
  5. Holds neck extended in flight

Adult:

  1. White body plumage with black tips to outer primaries
  2. Bill and facial skin pinkish-red
  3. Red legs

Immature:

  1. Brown head, neck, back and wings
  2. White belly
  3. Orange bill and facial skin
  4. Dull legs

Similar species:

Adults are unmistakable. Curlews are much smaller, mottled brown and black with white necks and bellies and usually with a distinctive head pattern. The white belly of the immature White Ibis distinguishes it from Glossy Ibis and White-faced Ibis.