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General Meeting. It was a spectacular scene. Lots of Egrets, Black-headed Lbis, Lesser Whistling Ducks & Herons. Black-headed Ibis,Black-headed Lbis,Egrets,Geotagged,Lesser Whistling Ducks,Sri Lanka,Threskiornis melanocephalus Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

General Meeting.

It was a spectacular scene. Lots of Egrets, Black-headed Lbis, Lesser Whistling Ducks & Herons.

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  1. We're visiting Sri Lanka later this year, thanks for the teasers! Posted 11 years ago

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The Black-headed Ibis or Oriental White Ibis is a species of wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae which breeds in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia from northern India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka east up to Japan. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 2 - 4 eggs.

It occurs in marshy wetlands inland and on the coast, where it feeds on various fish, frogs and other water creatures, as well as on insects. It walks about actively on marshy land probing with its.. more

Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises
Species identified by Bagerathan Sivarajah
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By Bagerathan Sivarajah

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Uploaded Mar 11, 2014. Captured Jan 26, 2014 11:56 in Kokkuvil-Vaddukkoddai Road, Sri Lanka.
  • Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
  • f/5.6
  • 1/403s
  • ISO80
  • 31.886mm