As has been posted, the two ibis continued through the afternoon, foraging in the grass right along the wildlife drive at Benning Marsh. One is clearly a WHITE-FACED: Reddish eye, red facial skin, red legs, silver bill, and gorgeous golden-green wings. The other bird was markedly different, with a dark eye, dark facial skin, thin white facial border, browner bill, all-dark legs, and darker, bluer back and wings. This bird looked to be an immature, so identification should be undertaken with care, but on the face of it, it certainly looked good for GLOSSY. Comments would be welcome. I will post more pictures soon, but here is a shot of the two together: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9NPknoBf_dNMm5m0KXduidMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
I believe this is the fourth Basin record of White-faced Ibis. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jay McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Chuck Gibson just posted to the RBA that two WHITE-FACED IBIS are > currently at Benning Marsh on the Wildlife Drive at Montezuma. > > -- > Jay McGowan > Macaulay Library > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > [email protected] > -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
