#ibis bird

[mikatoonist]

one of my favourite aussie animals; the bin chicken!

… also known as the australian white ibis 👏

love these guys 💖

[soundsofastar]

i like these guys. Why are you so beak

[yellowchap]

Just turned 22 yahoo✨🎉

[exploringsydney]

Bin Chicken 🩵 🗑️ 𓅞 | Martin Place, Sydney | 26.4.24 | Panasonic LUMIX DC-FZ80

[legitedigiulia]

Couple of Secred Ibis flying on Venetian skies Lio Piccolo, sept 2022

Italy

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)

Taken at South Patrick Community Park in Satellite Beach, FL

[mellifexfarm]

scrumbling her

[homeofhousechickens]

Haven't posted Ibis in a little bit. Does he look like a proud father?

[jagalart]

Ibis

A patron reward for the wonderful Fiyerose, thank you so much for such a fun theme!

[herpsandbirds]

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, northern Brazil

photograph by Sergio Bitran (@sbitran)

[siravalon]

Scarlet Ibis

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

[clawmarks]

Ibis - Lionel Lindsay - 1932 - via National Gallery of Victoria

[solarpunks]

This bird came back from extinction - now scientists in a glider are teaching it to migrate

Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to Spain

Fritz was inspired by the 1996 film Fly Away Home in which the main character flies an ultralight plane to show orphaned geese their migratory path. The film was based on the work of “Father Goose” Bill Lishman, a naturalist who taught Canadian geese in the same way in 1988.

Breeding efforts to increase their population over the past two decades have been successful, but without guidance from wild ancestors, the birds – known for their bald red head and long curved beak – no longer had any knowledge of which direction to fly for winter. Early reintroduction attempts were largely unsuccessful – instead of returning to suitable wintering grounds such as Tuscany, Italy, the birds flew in different directions and died.

When they reach the wintering grounds, the birds become fully independent and no longer need their foster parents, although they still recognise them years later and actively approach to say hello (the birds have a ritual greeting in which they spread their hair and bow, making a “chrrupp” noise). The central European population has increased from zero to almost 300 since the start of the project in 2002, and in 2011 the first bird migrated back to Bavaria from Tuscany without human help.

This is amazing and also very sweet. Do click though and read the whole article at the Guardian.

[extinctionstories]

Two hundred years ago, the wetlands of Japan rustled with pink-tinged feathers. Tall, pale birds stepped carefully through reeds and iris, hunting small fish, crabs, and frogs. 

Nipponia nippon, it would be dubbed by the national ornithological society, a bird emblematic of its country. The Crested Ibis. The Toki. The Peach Flower Bird.

Marshes slowly changed to rice fields, with farmers who resented the toki for ruining crops; to kill the birds was outlawed, so children chased them from the fields, singing warnings.

The doors of the country were pried open. Laws changed. Farmers bought their first guns, their sights set on birds who were no longer protected. The toki, the red-crowned crane, and many others began to suffer. But the worst was yet to come.

Pesticides are indiscriminate killers. The poison sprayed to kill a beetle can travel up the foodchain, toppling a cascade of larger animals, or affecting their ability to reproduce. It was reckless pesticide use that nearly wiped out the Bald Eagle. In the rice fields, the peach-flower-bird had little chance. 

In 1981, Japan’s last five living toki were removed from a wild that had become too dangerous for them.

I tell a lot of sad stories here, about mistakes we’ve made and animals we’ve lost. This isn’t one of those. This is a story about one of those precious times when we were able to fix the things we’d broken. 

A joint effort between Japan & China, and the discovery of seven more birds in that country, led to a successful breeding program, which in 2008 saw the first ibises fly free again in Japan. Today, at least 5000 toki exist in the world.

The last wild-born toki, one of those captured in 1981, lived almost long enough to see her species’ return. Reaching the equivalent age of a centenarian human, she died in 2003—not of old age, but injury after throwing herself against her cage door. 

Her name was ‘Kin’. ‘Gold’. 

Mended things can never be as whole as they once were. There will always be cracks that show, weak spots that remain vulnerable. Yet, like the shining seams of a kintsugi piece, these scars speak an important truth: here is a thing that someone chose to save; handle with care.

The title of this painting is ‘Restoration’. It is gouache on 22x30 inch watercolor paper, and is part of my series 'Conservation Pieces', exploring the effort to preserve endangered birds.

[simplified-birds]

Simplified birds #115 - hadada ibis

( requested by anon )