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

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Australian white ibis. Threskiornis molucca

Juvenile Australian native Laughing Kookaburra

Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers native to Australia. They grow between 28 and 47 cm in length and weigh around 300g

Red-billed hornbill, bird of South Africa

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

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae.

Marabou Stork at remains of elephant carcass on the bank of the Chobe River, Chobe National Park, Botswana

White Ibis commonly known as a bin chicken in Australia

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

Jabiru Stork, Jabiru Mycteria, Cuiaba River, Porto Jofre, Pantanal Matogrossense, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America

the yellow spoonbill is perched on a tree branch

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

Australian Black-necked Stork feeding on grass seeds

Australian native Laughing Kookaburra in the bush

Royal Spoonbill nesting at the mouth of Waitangiroto River in West Coast New Zealand

a black-faced ibis wading in a small pond

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

Ibis in sunshine, Threskiornis moluccus, The Australian White Ibis, background with copy space, full frame horizontal composition

The Jabiru Stork, shown here at the Belize Zoo, is the tallest standing bird in the Americas at 5ft and a wingspan of 8ft. The arrive in Belize from Mexico in November and nest in the tall pines of the savannas and marshes of the Belize lowlands.

Portrait of beautiful adult Asian woolly-necked stork or Asian woollynecked, low angle view, half shot, in the morning foraging on the agriculture area in nature of tropical dry forest, northeastern Thailand.

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