AMERICAN WHITE IBIS

1369                    AMERICAN WHITE IBIS                    Eudocimus albus

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The American white ibis is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from the southern half of the US East Coast (from southern New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia), along the Gulf Coast states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) and south through most of the Caribbean coastal regions of Central America. 

Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behaviour is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.