Ibises, Spoonbills

Sharp-tailed Ibis

Cercibis oxycerca

The Sharp-tailed Ibis (Cercibis oxycerca) is a 1.8 kg grassland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.

Family

Ibises, Spoonbills

Order

Pelecaniformes

Weight

1.8 kg

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

4

Photo: (c) Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist