The Spoonbills and Ibises constitute a homogeneous family of Herodiones, which have a wide distribution over the earth's surface, although mostly prevalent within intertropical limits.
Thus I have seen one drive up a flock of Glossy Ibises and pursue them some distance, striking and buffeting them with the greatest energy.
It is a very pretty bird in its dazzling white plumage, and is more active and social in its habits than most Herons, being usually seen in small flocks, and often associates with Ibises and other aquatic species.
There was another Hermopolis in the east of the Delta, called Bah in ancient Egyptian, Tel el-Baqliyeh in modern times, where a large burial-place of the sacred ibises was discovered by the fellahin six or seven years ago.
Tel el-Baqliyeh is the second station on the line of railway from Mansurah to Abu Kebir, and from it have come the bronze ibises and ibis-heads which have filled the shops of the Cairene dealers in antiquities.
All the dead ibisesof Egypt, he says, were carried to Hermopolis to be embalmed and buried.
Ibises and Spoonbills fly with the neck fully extended.
The serpents come winding to my feet; the wasps stick in my nostrils; and the parrots, the doves, and the ibises alight upon my branches.
Ibises are usually found in flocks along the shore of lagoons, lakes, etc.
Herons and Bitterns fly with a fold in the neck, the head being drawn in; Ibises and Spoonbills fly with the neck straight, the head being extended.
Ibises are much like storks, the common "sacred" ibis of Egypt probably owing its religious distinction to its fondness for lizards and snakes--a service highly appreciated in that country.
Several ibises inhabit America, one of which is not uncommon along the border of the Gulf of Mexico, while another is noted for the splendid scarlet of its plumage.
The ibises are silent birds, and live in flocks during the entire year.
Colonies of ibises build nests in reedy marshes, or in low trees and bushes not far from good feeding-grounds.
Ibises are distributed throughout the warmer parts of the globe and number, according to the best authorities, about thirty species, of which four occur in North America.
In flying, the ibises and storks stretch the neck straight in front of them.
Herons, storks, ducks, and ibises were in these marshes, and we saw one flock of lovely roseate spoonbills.
Miller told how on the Orinoco these ibisesplunder the nests of the big river-turtles.
Around the house the birds were tame: the parrots and parakeets crowded and chattered in the tree tops; jacanas played in the wet ground just back of the garden; ibises and screamers called loudly in the swamps a little distance off.
Time after time I have been solemnly informed that four or five, or a round dozen, Ibises had been seen at such a place.
The Egret is one of the many birds that the dragoman makes the tourist happy by calling "the Ibis," and the number that return to their friends gleefully telling how they saw a flock of Ibises grows every season.
In 1932, Holt visited the marshes of Cameron Parish in southwestern Louisiana where he studied the ibises nesting in a large rookery.
These observations include numerous field trips into the region where ibises are plentiful throughout the year, especially during the breeding season.
My associates and I have studied thousands of glossy ibisesin the marshes of southwestern Louisiana in the past ten years.
Though ibises resemble the curlews externally, there is no affinity between them.
This species lays eggs of a deep sea-green colour, having wholly the character of heron's eggs, and it often breeds in company with herons, while the eggs of all other ibises whose eggs are known resemble those of the sacred ibis.
The true ibises are also to be clearly separated from the wood-ibises, Tantalidae, of which there are four or five species, by several not unimportant structural characters.
Already, that autumn, the ibiseshad departed--as usual.
The changed quarters evidently met with approval, for each succeeding year since then we have had the company of ibises during winter.
Goeldi, of the State Museum Goeldi, Para, Brazil, have come bitter complaints of the slaughter of scarlet ibises in South America by plume-hunters in European pay.
Two ibises also walked in ludicrous high-legged state through the cenaculum, pecking here and there, and kept the floor clean, though they themselves were not so cleanly.
So the cavalcade trotted on; and the street-boys scattered and the ibises scattered with outstretched necks and wide-flapping wings.
Thrasyllus, isn't it comical to see so many ibises walking and fluttering through the streets of Alexandria?
Do look, Lucius, at all those ibises walking about on the quay, quiet and tame, pecking here and there, upon my word as though they were at home!
Two straw-necked Ibises and seven ducks were shot.
Several flocks of whistling ducks (Leptotarsis Eytoni, GOULD) and many black Ibises were here.
Sheldrakes and Ibises abounded at the water-holes.
A flock of black Ibises rose from a moist hollow; white and black cockatoos, were seen and heard frequently.
The black-faced ibises mentioned by Darwin as a common species at Port Desire have a most remarkable song and dance, so to speak, in mid-air.
Soon the head of the procession entered the pylon and the bugles and the drums sounded with a din which, repeated by the echoes, drove the sleeping ibises from the entablatures.
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