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Buff-necked Ibis
The Buff-necked Ibis, Theristicus caudatus also known as White-throated Ibis is a medium-sized, approximately 76cm long, South American ibis. It has a buffish neck, black bill, grey upperparts plumage, reddish legs, part of wing white and black below. Both sexes are similar.
Its appearance resembles the Black-faced Ibis, distinguished by its white wings and for having less extent of buffish breast than the latter species.
The Buff-necked Ibis is distributed to the woodlands, marshes, savanna, lakes and open forests of eastern regions of South America, from Colombia to Uruguay and northern parts of Argentina. Its diet consists mainly of insects, spiders, frogs, reptiles, snails, invertebrates and small mammals found in soft soils. The female usually lays between two to four eggs in a platform nest on trees, made from twigs and branches.
Widespread throughout its large habitat range, the Buff-necked Ibis is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of threatened Species.
References
Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
Buff-necked Ibis videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Photo-Medium Res; Article borderland-tours
Photo-High Res; Article chandra.as.utexas.edu
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