A white bird with spatulate ending bill.
Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Summary
Bird group
Ibises
Brief
A long-necked white bird, with long black legs and a distinctive large, flat black-and-yellow bill with a spoon-like tip. It has a pale yellowish-brown patch on the throat. In the breeding season it has a long crest and a yellow patch on its breast. It is a gregarious and sociable bird, often in small groups and flocks of 50 or more. It can be found on marshes, reservoirs, rivers and estuaries, but it is only occasionally seen around Tiruvannamalai (Nochimalai Eri) when water levels are high. It is most active in the mornings and evenings, when it may be seen singly or in flocks. The birds wade into shallow water with outstretched neck and bill held partly open as they rake up the bottom mud, moving the tip of the lower mandible in a semi-circular scything action. It feeds on tadpoles, frogs, molluscs, insects and vegetable matter. Its flight is rather slow and deliberate, with the neck and legs extended. It nests in a mixed heronry.
Diagnostic Keys
A stork sized white bird with spatulate tipped beak. Adult has black bill with yellow tip, crest and yellow patch on the breast in breeding plumage. Throat has yellow with red. Juvaniles have pink bill. Adult's legs are black.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Reproduction
Nesting in colonies along with other storks and egrets. Feeds on fishes, snails, frogs and other aquatic creatures.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Marine
Freshwater
Large lakes, marshy beels, reservoirs, rivers, swamps, lagoons and creeks.
Marshes, lakes, large rivers etc.
Description
Global Distribution
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Distribution In India
Throughout Indian Union
Distribution In Assam
Migratory in Assam (Dulungmukh of Lakhimpur district, Dibru-Saikhowa NP)
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Category
Least Concern
Legislation
CITES Status
Appendix II
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Praveen J., Jayapal, R., & Pittie, A., 2016. Checklist of the birds of India (v1.1). Website: http://www.indianbirds.in/india/ [Date of publication: 03 October, 2016].
- Praveen J., Jayapal, R., & Pittie, A., 2018. Checklist of the birds of India (v2.0). Website: http://www.indianbirds.in/india/ [Date of publication: 31 January, 2018].
Information Listing > References
- Praveen J., Jayapal, R., & Pittie, A., 2016. Checklist of the birds of India (v1.1). Website: http://www.indianbirds.in/india/ [Date of publication: 03 October, 2016].
- Praveen J., Jayapal, R., & Pittie, A., 2018. Checklist of the birds of India (v2.0). Website: http://www.indianbirds.in/india/ [Date of publication: 31 January, 2018].
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Aves |
Order | Pelecaniformes |
Family | Threskiornithidae |
Genus | Platalea |
Species | Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus 1758 |
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