This wading bird has a white body, long red bill, and red legs. It probes shallow water and mud for small animals.
Adults have white plumage with black wingtips and red facial skin, bill, and legs.
American White Ibises are large wading birds that use both urban green spaces and natural wetlands. GPS tracking in the southeastern United States found individuals that mainly used urban sites and others that mainly used natural sites. Birds using urban areas moved among urban sites, while birds using natural areas linked natural sites to one another.
Only a small share of tracked birds used both urban and natural environments, yet those individuals contributed substantially to movement links between the two. Actual cross-habitat connectivity was lower than a model based on distance alone predicted, showing how individual habitat choices shaped the movement network across the landscape.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
A GPS study in the southeastern United States found that ibises mainly linked sites of the same type: urban users linked urban sites, while natural-site users linked natural sites. The small number of birds using both settings contributed disproportionately to connectivity between them, and observed cross-habitat links were weaker than distance-only predictions.