Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Pelecaniformes > Threskiornithidae > Plegadis > Plegadis falcinellus

Plegadis falcinellus (Glossy Ibis)

Synonyms: Ibis falcinellus; Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus; Tantalus falcinellus (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek plegados and Latin, falcis, both meaning "sickle" and referring to the distinctive shape of the bill.
View Wikipedia Record: Plegadis falcinellus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
36
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.7857
EDGE Score: 3.08125
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.398 lbs (634 g)
Birth Weight [3]  166 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal saltmarshes, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread
Wintering Habitat [2]  Wetlands, Coastal saltmarshes, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Fish [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  42 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  820,000
Incubation [3]  21 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  27 years
Snout to Vent Length [5]  20 inches (52 cm)
Speed [7]  28.185 MPH (12.6 m/s)
Wing Span [7]  35 inches (.89 m)
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

+ Click for partial list (100)Full list (367)

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Aeshna mixta (Migrant Hawker)[8]
Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly )[8]
Cyprinus carpio (Common carp)[8]
Pleurodeles waltl (Iberian ribbed newt)[8]
Sympetrum fonscolombii (Red-veined Darter)[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[9]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 8The Diet of the Glossy Ibis During the Breeding Season in Doñana, Southwest Spain, Mercedes Macías, Andy J. Green and Marta I. Sánchez, Waterbirds 27(2): 234-239. 2004
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0