Black-headed Ibis or Oriental White Ibis
Among the 28 different types of Ibis still surviving on this planet this is the most commonly found Ibis in India. The black-headed ibis is classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List. You can read more about this graceful bird here
Posted under the A 2 Z Challenge.
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WHere did you take this?
Ranthambore !
I was going to ask if it was Nalsarovar
I have seen it in Nalsarovar too but didn’t own such a camera then !
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Nice capture! The reflection in the water, especially the beak is so cool.
its like a sketch in the water eh ! 🙂
Nice one Hitchy. I saw the Scarlet Ibis in the Bird Park at KL. It really looked like a painted statue at first!
Its a beautiful bird !!!!! 😀 I just saw its pics in your KL album 😀
I really admire your reflections ! and this bird ofcourse is so lovely ! 🙂
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Beautiful picture. never seen an Ibis before so this was very interesting.
OMG…that is calendar quality capture. BTW ‘Ibis’ reminds me of Amitav Ghosh’s trilogy 🙂
Beautiful pic. Not only this. .. but all the pics in other posts too. 🙂
-A fellow Blogger from A to Z!
Good capture…I recently came to know about this bird through Animal planet 🙂
oh look at its reflection- the beak especially has my attention. Where did you click this dhiren? NICe !
I took a similr click in Sultanpur bird sanctuary but it was not this much lovely 🙂
Looks like one of the shots my hubbs will click 😛
Beautiful ! never seen before, thanks for sharing !
Was lucky to see some here in Mumbai too. Beautiful.
I have started enjoying photography nowadays and my post is also about images, interesting images 🙂 lovely pic.
It’s a beautiful bird. I’ve learnt something new today 🙂
Nice click.
I saw one just y’day and pointed it out to my son. Now the Ibis(es) he has seen are the pink and red ones more commonly found in bird parks (like Jurong) and he refused to believe me!
Great pic.
An amazing shot. I haven’t seen this variety before!
gorgeous photo!
What a beauty!!!