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Bare-faced Ibis

Phimosus infuscatus · Family Threskiornithidae

Phimosus infuscatus

Family Threskiornithidae

Order
Pelecaniformes
Family
Threskiornithidae
GBIF occurrence records
314,795
Countries and territories with records
15
Bare-faced Ibis
Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom · Phimosus infuscatus -Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil-8.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 314,795 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (53.4%), Brazil (18.9%), Argentina (13.3%), Venezuela (8.2%) and Uruguay (3.1%); together they account for 96.8% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.63% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Phimosus infuscatus combines the genus name Phimosus with the species epithet infuscatus. It is the only species of the genus Phimosus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is close to 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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