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Straw-necked Ibis

Threskiornis spinicollis · Family Threskiornithidae

Threskiornis spinicollis

Family Threskiornithidae

Order
Pelecaniformes
Family
Threskiornithidae
GBIF occurrence records
508,619
Countries and territories with records
14
Straw-necked Ibis
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Threskiornis spinicollis - Centenary Lakes.jpg · CC BY 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 508,619 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.46% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Threskiornis spinicollis combines the genus name Threskiornis with the species epithet spinicollis. 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 aethiopicus and Threskiornis melanocephalus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 1.5 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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