Threskiornis melanocephalus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: It inhabits freshwater marshes, lakes , rivers , flooded grasslands, paddy fields , tidal creeks , mudflats , saltmarshes and coastal lagoons , usually in extreme lowlands, but occasionally up to 950 m , tending to be nomadic in response to water levels and feeding conditions.

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List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     12     Marine Intertidal   
  
•     12.5     Marine Intertidal - Salt Marshes (Emergent Grasses)   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.4     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.8     Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Threskiornis melanocephalus (Latham, 1790)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Threskiornis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. aethiopica (Scared Ibis) · T. aethiopicus (African Sacred Ibis) · T. aethiopicus aethiopicus (African Sacred Ibis) · T. bernieri (Madagascar Sacred Ibis) · T. melanocephalus (Black-Headed Ibis) · T. molucca (Australian Sacred Ibis) · T. molucca molucca (Australian White Ibis) · T. solitarius (R?union Flightless Ibis) · T. spinicollis (Straw-Necked Ibis)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 524.
• A history of the birds of Ceylon / London: Published by the author, 1880 [i.e. 1878-1880] url p. 1106.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 100, p. 86.
• Birds. By Eugene W. Oates. London: Taylor and Francis; [etc., etc.], 1889-98. url p. 361.
• Birds. London, Taylor and Francis, 1889-1898. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 260.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 8.
• Catalogue of the birds found in Ceylon: with some remarks on their habits and local distribution, and descriptions of two new species peculiar to the island / London: [s.n.], 1872. url p. 479.
• Directory of Wetlands of International Importance. IUCN url p. 304.
• Game, shore, and water birds of India / Calcutta: Thacker, Spink; 1888 url p. 94.
• IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 202.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 404, p. 419, p. 473, p. 765.
• Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 4 1908 Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal. url p. 66, p. 71.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 10 1887 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 767.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 69.
• Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies. Calcutta: s.n., 1872-1899. url p. 213, p. 231, p. 25, p. 257, p. 264, p. 347, p. 400, p. 436.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 374, p. 397.
• The avifauna of British India and its dependencies: a systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia by James A. Murray. London: Trübner, 1888-1890. url p. 667, p. 815.
• The birds of India: being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India, with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not foun by T.C. Jerdon. Calcutta: Printed for the Author by the Military Orphan Press, 1862-1864. url p. 768.
• The nests and eggs of Indian birds / Allan O. Hume. London: R. H. Porter, 1889-1890. url p. 226.
• The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province. .. London, Richardson, 1884. url , .
• The vertebrate zoology of Sind: a systematic account. .. / by James A. Murray. London: Richardson, 1884. url p. 278.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2006. Threskiornis melanocephalus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2008. Threskiornis melanocephalus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8905
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174944
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14255225
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174944
• IUCN ID: 246288
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12174

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2008. Threskiornis melanocephalus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]

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