Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - White Ibis FAMILY - Threskiornithidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Eudocimus albus SYNONYMS - Scolopax alba - Linnaeus, 1758 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 30 Resident, species present all year. 3 Vulnerable in Belize 29 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 29 Vulnerable in Belize 5 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 26 District Reference Belize 4 Corozal 9 Orange Walk 10 Toledo 25 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Sighting Permanent 11 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary 13 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Wet season 9 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting 5 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 16 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 27 Gallon Jug 15 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 17 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 19 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 14 Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Permanent 23 Burdon Canal Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 7 Community Baboon Sanctuary Sighting Dry season 19 Community Baboon Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 18 Community Baboon Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 22 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 8 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Dry season 20 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop 13 Private land, see comments Sighting August 24 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 10 Private land, see comments Dry season 20 Private land, see comments 21 Government land Sighting Dry season 19 Government land Dry season 12 Ambergris Cay 17 Cayes, other; see comments Dry season 20 Cayes, other; see comments 5 Turneffe Reef 13 Monkey River Special Development Area 25 Caye Caulker Sighting Dry season 6 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 27 Belize River 22 Belize River 19 Mussel Creek 8 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 24 1-200 m 27 1-200 m 28 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 16 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 28 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 20 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 21 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 13 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 00' to 88 10' 14 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 9 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 25 17 00' to 17 15'; 87 30' to 87 45' 23 17 15' to 17 30'; 87 45' to 88 00' 13 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 11 17 52'35" to 18 11'30"; 87 49' to 88 03' 17 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 24 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 28 Subtropical moist 27 Subtropical moist 24 Subtropical moist 22 Marine 23 General Distribution Comments 30* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Common mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Common cayes inc. Ambergris. 3* Common in northern hardwood forests, common in coastal savannahs, common in mangroves & beaches along coastal mainland, common in cayes inc. Ambergris. 21* Big Falls Rice Farm; BZ City oil terminal 20* Big Falls Rice Farm; Caye Chapel 19* Oil terminal; Big Falls; Airport Camp 13* Grassy Cay; Ycacos Lagoon 12* Belize City 10* Gold Button Ranch 5* Following Cayes: Bird, Rosario, Conejo, Conejito, Shipstern References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 McRae, E., 1994. The Birds of Belize's Coastal Zone: Species, Distribution, Current Status, Threats to Their Well-being, and Potential Measures to Reduce Their impact. Unpublished report. 6 McRae, E. 1993. Preliminary Check-list - Birds of Caye Caulker. 7 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1993. Preliminary Avian Survey of Burdon Canal Nature Reserve. Unpublished report for the Forest Department 8 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 9 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 10 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 11 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 12 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 13 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 14 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 15 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 16 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 17 Forsythe, D. 1994. Unpublished Belize Trip list June 18-21. 18 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 19 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 20 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 21 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 22 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data 23 Pomeroy, C. 1989. Internship Report, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument. Unpublished report for Belize Audubon Society. 24 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 25 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 26 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 27 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 28 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 29 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 30 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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