Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis

Taxobox
name = Scarlet Ibis| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Ciconiiformes
familia = Threskiornithidae
subfamilia = Threskionithinae
genus = "Eudocimus"
species = "E. ruber"
binomial = "Eudocimus ruber"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
range_


range_map_width = 200px
range_map_caption = Range

The Scarlet Ibis ("Eudocimus ruber") is a species of ibis that inhabits tropical South America and also Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and is featured on the Trinidad and Tobago coat of arms along with Tobago's national bird Rufous-vented Chachalaca.

Adults are 56-61 cm long and weigh 650g. They are completely scarlet, except for black wing-tips. They nest in trees, laying two to four eggs. Their diet includes crustaceans and similar small marine animals. A juvenile Scarlet Ibis is grey/white in colour; as it grows the ingestion of red crabs in the tropical swamps gradually produces the characteristic scarlet plumage.

Life span of Scarlet Ibis is approximately 15 years in the wild and 20 years in captivity.

This species is very closely related to the American White Ibis and is sometimes considered conspecific with it.

While the species may have occurred as a natural vagrant in southern Florida in the late 1800s, all recent reports of the species in North America have been of introduced or escaped birds. Eggs from Trinidad were placed in White Ibis nests in Hialeah Park in 1962, and the resulting population hybridised with the native ibis, producing "pink ibis" that are still occasionally seen.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* Linblad, Jan. 1966. "Journey to red birds". Trans. by Gwynne Vevers. Reprint: Collins, London. 1969.
* Zahl, Paul A. 1954. "Coro-Coro: The World of the Scarlet Ibis". Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis / New York.


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