Mason Nistad

White Ibis

(Eudocimus albus)

The white ibis is a white bird with red-ish orange and beak. The white ibis also has a black tip on the very edge of its wings. The white ibis lives in shallow water, ponds, lakes and estuaries, more specifically coastal regions of southeastern North America. All animals belong to a domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. Its domain is Eukarya, its kingdom is Animalia, its phylum is Chordata, its class is Vertebrata, its order is Aves, its Family is Ciconiiformes, its genus is Eudocimus and its species is albus. The white ibis has bilateral symmetry, that means if you were to split the bird in half each side would match up perfectly. One adaptation that the white ibis has is its long hard beak. That helps them dig into the pluff mud and get any food it wants like crabs and worms. That is a structural adaptation. Another adaptation us some of the calls it makes. It is known to make a “honking” and a “begging” sound. Making those sounds helps them for when they are mating during the mating season. That is a behavioral adaptation. Another adaptation is its long skinny legs. That is helpful to hide its long skinny legs into the mud and hide from other organisms. An interesting fact about the  white ibis is that its average age at sexual or reproductive maturity for  female is only 3 years old. The birds predators are fish crows and their prey is insects, snails, worms, fish and crabs.The white ibis is a heterotrophic organism, that means it gets its energy by eating other animals. The white ibis is an ectothermic organism that means the temperature of the birds blood changes depending on the  temperature of its environment.

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