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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, 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. [2]
The glossy ibis was first documented in the New World in 1817 . Audubon saw the species just once in Florida in 1832. It expanded its range substantially northwards in the 1940s and to the west in the 1980s. [5]
An extinct species, the Jamaican ibis or clubbed-wing ibis (Xenicibis xympithecus) was uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. Extinct ibis species include the following: Geronticus perplexus. Discovered in France. It is known only from a piece of distal right humerus, found at Sansan France, in Middle Miocene rocks.
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Florida. This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC). As of November 2022, there were 539 species included in the official list. [1]
The derived nature of this species indicates ibises belonging to Eudocimus were already in existence at this time. [ 3 ] A 2010 study of mitochondrial DNA of the spoonbills by Chesser and colleagues, which included E. ruber , Nipponia nippon and Threskiornis aethiopicus found that E. ruber was an early offshoot and not closely related to a ...
Generally, the species occurs in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of the United States, [15] [16] and from central Florida's Atlantic coast [17] at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center at least as far north as ...
In the rainforest of northern South America, an entomologist by the name of Alfred E. Emerson spent five years on the hunt for new species. Emerson conducted three species surveys from 1919 to ...
This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Everglades National Park, which is in the U.S. state of Florida. This list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) dated June 21, 2022. [1] Of the 375 species included here, 13 have been introduced to North America, three have been extirpated, and one is ...