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Threskiornis aethiopicus (Sacred Ibis)

Synonyms: Tantalus aethiopicus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of ibis. Its sister species is the Australian white ibis.
View Wikipedia Record: Threskiornis aethiopicus

Infraspecies

Threskiornis aethiopicus abbotti
Threskiornis aethiopicus aethiopicus
Threskiornis aethiopicus bernieri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.0957
EDGE Score: 2.77855
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  2
Clutches / Year [2]  1
Fledging [2]  38 days
Incubation [6]  29 days
Maximum Longevity [8]  37 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  28 inches (70 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools, Coastal
Wing Span [9]  3.87 feet (1.18 m)
Adult Weight [2]  3.305 lbs (1.499 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  62 grams
Female Weight [5]  3.038 lbs (1.378 kg)
Male Weight [5]  3.567 lbs (1.618 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [5]  17.4 %
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Fish [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Aonyx capensis (African Clawless Otter)1
Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia (Herald Snake, Red-lipped Snake)1
Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polymorphus biziurae[12]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 5Lowe, KW, Clark, A. & Clark, RA 1985. Body measurements, plumage and moult of the Sacred Ibis in South Africa. Ostrich 56: 111-116
♦ 6Intrinsic aging-related mortality in birds, Robert E. Ricklefs, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 31: 103–111. Copenhagen 2000
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8de 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
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 10"FOOD OF SACRED IBIS THRESKIORNIS AETHIOPICUS NESTLINGS IN THE FREE STATE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA", Grzegorz Kopija, Ordino B. Koka & Zennon N. Roosa, Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology Volume 67, Issue 3-4, 1996 (2010)
♦ 11Jorrit 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.
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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