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2 unusual facts about Northern Bald Ibis


Birecik

The Northern Bald Ibis used to nest here and winter in the deserts of Arabia, up to 1,000 pairs in the 1960s.

Oued Tamri

Until recently the Northern Bald Ibis was believed to survive in the wild only in Morocco at Souss-Massa National Park (338 kmĀ²) where there are three colonies, and at the nearby Tamri River mouth, where there is one colony containing almost half the African breeding population, with some movement of birds between these two sites.


1832 in birding and ornithology

Johann Georg Wagler moves the Northern Bald Ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)


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