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In past years, he said, the ibises would either “just utilize this for a roosting siteand wouldn’t nest because of the lack of water, or they nested but were unsuccessful in fledging out their young.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Calabro and I talked a little bit about local wildlife: the striped bass, the oystercatchers, the glossy ibises that nest somewhere near the marsh islands around the North Channel Bridge near JFK Airport.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2022
Outliers included big albatrosses and tiny hummingbirds, and ibises with their long, curved beaks.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 21, 2022
"It was just carnage, with kelp gulls and ibises coming for these chicks," says Lauren Waller, a seabird scientist at Sanccob.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2021
Matt was startled to see the lotus pond and a pair of ibises lazily stretching their wings.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
