The White Ibis

by Felix Lai

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The White Ibis

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Felix Lai

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This photo captures the candid moment of an American White Ibis foraging in shallow water. If framed properly, a bird or an animal could be an excellent subject for photography.

* You might ask why I did not center the bird in the photograph. The answer is to give it a sense of movement, moving to the left!

The American white ibis is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal New World tropics. This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. The breeding range runs along the Gulf and Atlantic Coast, and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Outside the breeding period, the range extends further inland in North America and also includes the Caribbean. It is also found along the northwestern South American coastline in Colombia and Venezuela. Populations in central Venezuela overlap and interbreed with the scarlet ibis. The two have been classified by some authorities as a single species.

* Copyright Felix Lai. Watermark will not appear on final prints of the photograph.

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January 22nd, 2017

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