Aging and identification of Glossy Ibis
(Plegadis falcinellus)
Click here to see JUVENILE
PLUMAGE GLOSSY IBIS.
Click here to see GLOSSY
IBIS in subadult or odd plumages.
Literature
Kaufman, K. (1990) 'The dark Ibises' in A Field
Guide to Advanced Birding. Chapter 5, p39-42, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Sibley, D. A. (2000) 'The Sibley Guide to Birds',
Knopf, Inc.
Photography: All shots were taken through
a Kowa TSN-4 scope (at 20X) using a Nikon Coolpix 880 digital camera. Images
were cropped and sharpened slightly using Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
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