Today along the northeast shore of Getchell Lake in Stearns Co. there was a Plegadis ibis; I first noticed it at 11:25, and it was there when I left at 1:00. It was an adult, but was always between 400 and 800 yards away, so my ability to evaluate bare-part colors was quite limited: legs were pinkish red and bill was grayish, but I couldn't determine color of the bare facial skin, and I *for sure* couldn't determine iris color.
Also, there was an obvious whitish border above and below the bare facial skin; couldn't be sure if it went behind the eye. So, the breadth of the whitish border, especially below the bare facial skin, in combination with the pinkish red legs, is suggestive of White-faced Ibis, though as was mentioned above I was a "few cents short of a dollar," identification-wise, given especially the problems posed by mixed-blood Plegadis. Phil Chu Department of Biology St. John's University ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
