The White-shouldered Ibis is a large ibis with a pale blue-white neck band and a white wing mark visible in flight.
Its body is brownish black, with glossy blue-black wings and tail. A band of bare bluish-white skin extends from the chin around to the nape at the base of the skull, and a white patch shows on the wing in flight.
It probes mud and cracks in the ground with its long, curved bill to find food. In Indochina, dry dipterocarp forest with seasonal pools is an important habitat.
In Borneo it favours mature riparian forest, while in Indochina it generally uses wet or flooded openings in dry forest and wooded plains.
It forages singly, in pairs, or in small groups and often disperses with the arrival of seasonal rains.
Its calls include loud, resonant honks and croaking roars.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.