American white ibis: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the American white ibis lives – recorded in 19 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Eudocimus albus
Group	Herons, storks, cranes & flamingos
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	19 countries
Continents	North America, South America
Mass	1.04 kg (male organism, adult weight); 764 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Pelecaniformes
Family	Threskiornithidae

Where does the American white ibis live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the American white ibis in 19 countries and territories across North America and South America. Wikidata gives its range as: South America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an American white ibis?

Wikidata records the following for the American white ibis: mass 1.04 kg (male organism, adult weight); 764 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the American white ibis endangered?

The American white ibis’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the American white ibis?

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a bird in the order Pelecaniformes and the family Threskiornithidae, genus Eudocimus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the American white ibis

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) 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 to Georgia), along the Gulf Coast states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) and south through most of the Caribbean coastal regions of Central America. This particular ibis species is a medium-sized wading bird, possessing an overall white plumage with black wing-tips (usually only visible in flight), and having the typical downward-curving bill of the ibises, though of a bright red-orange color, the same hue as its long legs. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. The breeding range runs along the Gulf and Atlantic Coast, and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Outside the breeding period, the range extends further inland in North America and also includes the Caribbean. It is also found along the northwestern South American coastline in Colombia and Venezuela. Populations in central Venezuela overlap and interbreed with the scarlet ibis. The two have been classified by some authorities as a single species.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article American white ibis (revision 1380651671), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q589171 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).