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Rick Bowes | all galleries >> 2014 Various Galleries >> Photos taken on Duxbury Beach during 2014 - a gallery for each month >> Shots taken on Duxbury Beach_Gurnet_Saquish August, 2014 > Ibis (likely Glossy Ibis) - Duxbury Beach, MA - August 6, 2014
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06-AUG-2014

Ibis (likely Glossy Ibis) - Duxbury Beach, MA - August 6, 2014

This lone Ibis flew over me at Plum Hills lot and kept going northward at a decent height finally alighting in the marsh grass of the High Pines peninsula (out of sight). It stayed only about 5 minutes in the marsh and then flew up - rising pretty high and continued up the Beach - heading NNW.

I kept pace in the car to HP, and got some photos. This one and a distant shot of it landing in the marsh (see next pix) document that it is either a Glossy Ibis or White-faced Ibis, but they are not sufficient to be absolutely certain that it is a Glossy - especially since this looks to be a sub-adult. The National Geographic writeup makes it pretty clear that separating the two in the field isn't always possible. While the East Coast location makes it almost certainly a Glossy Ibis, WFGI have been reported on the north shore.

This might be the bird last reported 7/17 at Daniel Webster Widlife Sanctuary in Marshfield - it definitely was flying in that direction and the locations aren't far apart as the Ibis flies.

Canon EOS 40D
1/640s f/10.0 at 400.0mm iso400 full exif

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