Ibis

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Ibis

***** Location: Australia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

There are various types of Ibis in Australia.

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Sacred Ibis, Threskiornis aethiopicus
Sacred Ibis can been seen flying in a v formation. They all flap their wings and glide together.

The Sacred Ibis live can be seen all over the central and eastern Australia in swamps and on water covered ground, eating fish, insects, crabs, worms, frogs and other crustaceans.

Animals of Australia
© 2000 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Australian White Ibis, Threskiornis molucca

The Australian white ibis feeds on grasshoppers, locusts, beetles, frogs, worms, crayfish, mussels and sandwiches.



　©　Mark David

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Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae. They all have long down curved bills, and usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. Most species nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons.

The word ibis comes from Greek, originally borrowed from Ancient Egyptian hîb.

According to folklore, the ibis is the last form of wildlife to take shelter prior to a hurricane and the first to reappear after the storm passes. The Sacred Ibis was also an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the god, Thoth.

The Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca)
is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, also known as the "Sheep bird". They are widespread in eastern and south western Australia.

This species has a black head and neck and a long black downcurved beak. The body plumage is white with some black feathers near the tail. The legs are dark.
Read more here:
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Worldwide use

Kenya

Ibis (hadada) in Kenya


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India

The Red-naped Ibis (Pseudibis papillosa)
also known as the Indian Black Ibis or just the Black Ibis, is a species of ibis found in parts of the Indian Subcontinent.
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stubble field
the ibis' shadow shrinks
as it lands

Johannes Manjrekar,
India, February 2008



tandem shadows
I look up to see
two white ibis

- Shared by Johannes Manjrekar -
Joys of Japan, October 2012



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Japan

. toki とき【鴇】 Japanese crested ibis .



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

forked lightning
ibis in ragged file
across the cloud

quendryth young

More haiku from Australia are here :
©　Wollumbin Haiku Workshop 2006

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long day. . .
an ibis flickers in
dry weeds

chris e.
Simply Haiku Forum

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through morning mist
with measured tread
walk ibis

Nicholas Barwell
http://www.haikuoz.org/2006/08/haiku_competition_and_haiku_wa.html

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ten ibis
wait on branch tips for
mist to lift

Lorne Henry (Australia)
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/040506.html

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plunging clouds -
the ibis
buries its beak

doris kasson
http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/4thconres.html

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Related words

***** Australian Saijiki



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