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STRAW-NECKED IBIS FACTS |
Description
The Straw-necked Ibis is a large water bird with a naked black head, long curved black bill and yellow throat plumes.
Other Names
Farmer's Friend
Size
68cm
Habitat
grasslands, pastures, croplands and swamp or lagoon margins
Food
insects such as grasshoppers and locusts. Also frogs, small reptiles and small mammals
Breeding
low nests are large trampled platforms of reeds. Lays 2-3 eggs.
Range
found across mainland Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Ciconiiformes | | Family: | Threskiornithidae | | Genus: | Threskiornis | | Species: | spinicollis | | Common Name: | Straw-necked Ibis |
Relatives in same Genus
Australian White Ibis (T. molucca)
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