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Hadada Ibis
Bostrychia hagedash · Family Threskiornithidae
Bostrychia hagedash
Family Threskiornithidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 657,294
- Countries and territories with records
- 48
About this species
This species has 657,294 occurrence records from 48 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (80.2%), Kenya (7.8%), Uganda (3.4%) and Tanzania (1.7%); together they account for 93.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 1.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Bostrychia hagedash combines the genus name Bostrychia with the species epithet hagedash. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Bostrychia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Bostrychia carunculata, Bostrychia olivacea and Bostrychia rara.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 1.9 times the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.