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American White Ibis

Eudocimus albus · Family Threskiornithidae

Eudocimus albus

Family Threskiornithidae

Order
Pelecaniformes
Family
Threskiornithidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,337,152
Countries and territories with records
37
American White Ibis
Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Netherlands · Eudocimus albus (4111616588).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Netherlands · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,337,152 occurrence records from 37 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (89.5%), Mexico (3.6%) and Costa Rica (2.7%); together they account for 95.8% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Eudocimus albus combines the genus name Eudocimus with the species epithet albus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Eudocimus: Eudocimus ruber.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 6.9 times the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Threskiornithidae

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