Ibises

Hello Reader,


Today anotar bird to talk about. The Ibises.




It is a bird far spread into the world, except in Antarctida, habiting forests, plains and wetlands. But I focusing in two species of ibis, the straw-necked and the australian white ibis.





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This two species of ibis have the costume of get together in a huge flock on the season of breeding when they coexist. They have a time to normally procreate in the year depending on the region were they are, but have some cases when occur after a big rain in any time of the year. They also can create their nests in a place where other birds like egrets, herons, spoonbills or cormorants, who also build nest near a corp of water.




The most common ibis to see is the australian-white-ibis, because it have adapted well to the live in the city; While the straw-necked ibis don’t have adapted to cities, but have a good relation with farmers sins they eat the plague insects. The australian white ibis is consider in some places a plague in the city due their unique bad smell and they also turn garbage cans and even stole sandwiches of picnic baskets.





The australian white ibis get so long in the city that they even abandon their usual place of procreation to stay in the same place, building their nests in rivers that cross the town.




http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=22697525




Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Class> Aves
   Order> Pelecaniformes
    Family> Threskiornithidae
     Genus> Threskiornis
      Species> T. spinicollis

Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Class> Aves
   Order> Pelecaniformes
    Family> Threskiornithidae
     Genus> Threskiornis
       Species> T.molucca

Catch you later~




References:
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Threskiornis_spinicollis/classification/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw-necked_ibis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Threskiornis_molucca/classification/#Threskiornis_molucca
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22697525/0

http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/straw-necked-ibis-threskiornis-spinicollis/details
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Threskiornis-spinicollis

Painted Button-Quails

Hello Reader,


Normali in the animal kingdom you will see a male doing the call for females and protecting a territory, men while the female take care of the offspring. But note this one. They switches places in the chores. I am talking about the Painted Button-Quails (Turnix varius).

The Painted Button-Quails is endemic of Australia.








The female is the one who will keep a territory and have more than one partner. She calls for the males, lay their eggs (between 3-5), and leave the part of caring for the yongs with the male. The female is bigger than the male, and during the courtship she even offer food to the male.



The male will incubate the eggs during 15 day, and will care for them after hatching more 16 days, when they will be group enough to take care from themselves.



It is a bird that aviators created, but is not recommended if you are a total inicant. They can be see like a control pest population of insects.




Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Class> Aves
   Order> Charadriiformes
    Family> Turnicidae
     Genus> Turnix
      Species> T. varius

~Catch you later

References:
http://www.graemechapman.com.au/library/viewphotos.php?c=736
http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/62288672
http://birdcare.com.au/painted_button_quail.htm
http://www.birdsindanger.net/pdfs/Painted%20Button-quail%20(Houtman%20Abrolhos).pdf
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=82451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_buttonquail
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Turnix_varius/