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The Jamaican ibis, Jamaican flightless ibis [1] or clubbed-wing ibis [2] (Xenicibis xympithecus) is an extinct bird species of the ibis subfamily uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. [3] It is the only species in the genus Xenicibis , [ 1 ] and one of only two flightless ibis genera, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the other being the genus Apteribis ...
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large wading birds. The family has been traditionally classified into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills; however recent genetic studies have cast doubt on this arrangement, and have found the spoonbills to be nested within the Old World ibises, and the New World ibises as an early offshoot.
An extinct species, the Jamaican ibis or clubbed-wing ibis (Xenicibis xympithecus) was uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. Extinct ibis species include the following: Geronticus perplexus. Discovered in France. It is known only from a piece of distal right humerus, found at Sansan France, in Middle Miocene rocks.
Jackson's Bay Cave is a very large cave on the Portland Ridge in Clarendon near the south coast of Jamaica. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Caribbean. It was discovered in 1964. It is part of the Jackson bay cave system, consisting of 14 unconnected caves, and over 9200m of cumulated caves passages mapped since then. [2]
The red-billed streamertail is the national bird of Jamaica. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Jamaica. The avifauna of Jamaica included a total of 332 species as of July 2022, according to Bird Checklists of the World. Of them, 28 are endemic, 19 have been introduced by humans, and 159 are rare or accidental. Another species (great-tailed grackle) is concentrated in one area and ...
Theristicus is a genus of birds in the family Threskiornithidae.They are found in open, grassy habitats in South America.All have a long, decurved dark bill, relatively short reddish legs that do not extend beyond the tail in flight (unlike e.g. Eudocimus and Plegadis), and at least the back is grey.
An Ibis is one of a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which new world and old world ibises share with the spoonbills. Pages in category "Ibises" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
African sacred ibis: Sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq, and formerly in Egypt: T. bernieri: Malagasy sacred ibis: Madagascar T. melanocephalus: Black-headed ibis: Northern India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka east up to Japan T. moluccus: Australian white ibis: Eastern, northern and south-western Australia T. spinicollis: Straw-necked ibis