Ibisbill

The Ibisbill is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is grey with a white belly, red legs and long down-curved bill, and a black face and black breast band. It occurs on the shingle riverbanks of the high plateau of central Asia and the Himalayas. It lays its eggs in a ground scrape, and feeds on

The Ibisbill is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is grey with a white belly, red legs and long down-curved bill, and a black face and black breast band. It occurs on the shingle riverbanks of the high plateau of central Asia and the Himalayas. More

about 40 centimetres (16 inches) long, ibisbills have shorter legs than their familial relatives the avocets and stilts (family Recurvirostridae, order Charadriiformes). The body is gray, with a black breast band and facial mask. Ibisbills nest at 3,000 metres (9,840 feet) or higher in the Himalayas; they winter in the foothills. Learn more about "ibisbill" Citations - MLA Style: "ibisbill." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 17 May. 2010 . More

The Ibisbill is a strange and unique wader of wide high-altitude Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau valleys with flat stony rivers. Its range extends across central Asia from Kazakhstan to nw. China and south to nw. India. Although Sibley & Monroe (1980) considered it just a very odd avocet (within their tribe Recurvirostrini based mostly on DNA evidence), most taxonomists elevate it to its own monotypic family. Hayman et al. More

We saw other Ibisbills in the Thimpu river and near Punakha. More

Aspects of the topic ibisbill are discussed in the following places at Britannica. More

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Readcasts ibisbill has published: 1. 1 p. Chinese science fiction, 1976 From: ibisbill Reads: 31 2. 1 p. Student Politics in Shanghai 1975-76 From: ibisbill Reads: 15 3. 1 p. More

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