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Close-up of American white ibis standing on a dry tree in a swamp.

The Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia)

A white ibis perching in a cypress tree.

An American white ibis (eudocimus albus) captured with a crab in its beak, in the grasses of the wetlands.

Ibis in search for food near lake in Brisbane.

Great Egret in the wild. Great egret (Ardea alba). White Egret in the wetland

a white ibis standing in a tree near its nest

the yellow spoonbill is perched on a tree branch

Shimmering vibrant colours and diversity of species such as the Great Egret, marks Costa Rica as one of the principal Central America countries with a territory and tropical rainforest that hosts migration from north America and south America to give it unparalleled numbers and variation of birdlife

Group of cattle egrets in the nesting area

Great Egret three quarter view at Big Cypress National Preserve on Kirby Storter Boardwalk. This is in a Cypress Strand which is a form of wetland.

A native stork in North America, a very large, heavy-billed bird that wades in the shallows of southern swamps.

The Eurasian spoonbill or Common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.

Juvenile White Ibis resting on a park bench in the morning sun.

Great white heron in Everglades National Park, Florda, USA

White ibis wild bird, also known as great egret or heron walking on grass in town park in summer.

Eurasion Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) large, long-legged wading bird in the new Reevediep nature reserve near Kampen, Overijssel, during a beautiful springtime evening.

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal New World tropics. The ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. 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.

A beautiful great egret in flight over a body of water in south Florida

The royal spoonbill is a large white sea bird with a black bill that looks like a spoon. The royal spoonbill has yellow eyebrows and black legs

$Western Cattle Egret.\nThe western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Most taxonomic authorities lump this species and the eastern cattle egret together (called the cattle egret), but some (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\n\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Western cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\n\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.$

Natural scene from Wisconsin conservation area

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