Description
Threskiornis aethiopicus
English: A African Sacred Ibis in the Mida Creek mud flats, Kenya.
Date 7 August 2007, 15:06
Source Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainbirder/5346900461/
Author Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland http://www.flickr.com/photos/50079771@N08
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Threskiornis_aethiopicus_-Mida_Creek_mud_flats,_Kenya-8.jpg

The African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of ibis. Its sister species is the Australian white ibis. A wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, the sacred ibis breeds in Sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq, and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth. The African sacred ibis occurs in marshy wetlands and mud flats, both inland and on the coast. It will also visit cultivation and rubbish dumps. Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Threskiornithidae, Subfamily: Threskiornithinae.