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African Sacred Ibis
Threskiornis aethiopicus · Family Threskiornithidae
Threskiornis aethiopicus
Family Threskiornithidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 441,758
- Countries and territories with records
- 92
About this species
This species has 441,758 occurrence records from 92 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (59.8%), Taiwan (10.8%), Kenya (7.9%), Italy (4.5%) and Tanzania (2.2%); together they account for 85.1% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.66% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Threskiornis aethiopicus combines the genus name Threskiornis with the species epithet aethiopicus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Threskiornis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Threskiornis molucca, Threskiornis spinicollis and Threskiornis melanocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.