Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)Central Park Zoo, NYC, New York (May 30, 2011)

Trinidad's National Bird. The colour variations reflect their age, with the older ones being more scarlet. Quite amazing birds with a colour that really contrasts with the forest green (for our eyes anyway!).

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) in captivity at the Birds of Eden Park Free Flight Bird Sanctuary at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Photographed on 19 June 2012.Native of the Americas. Audrey Bendus and Arthur Chapman.www.inaturalist.org/observations/52637714

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) in captivity at the Birds of Eden Park Free Flight Bird Sanctuary at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Photographed on 19 June 2012.Native of the Americas. Audrey Bendus and Arthur Chapman.www.inaturalist.org/observations/52637714

Trinidad and Tobago

Apure, Los Llanos, VENEZUELAScanned Slide from March 1999

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)Central Park Zoo, NYC, New York (May 30, 2011)

Commewijne, Suriname

Cayenne, French Guiana

They remind me of the snow geese - well, snow geese with weird beaks and who fell into a vat of red paint... but they fill the sky like the snow geese do! View large for best effect.