What is the sacred ibis?

Sacred Ibis is mostly a white wading bird common in South Africa and throughout Ethiopia, as well as Southeast Iraq and Madagascar. It recognizes them with its long, curved, black accounts and black clouds on the lower back and the tips of the wings. Long legs of birds and partly legs on Webbed allow feeding in swamps or flooded areas where the mud could be deep. Usually quiet, sacred Ibis can be bread for grunting or chrlík.

Threskiornis aethopicus is a scientific name for this bird that was originally from Egypt until it disappeared from this country in 1850. It was a symbol of Troth, God's wisdom and time. The ancient Egyptians believed that God had visited the Earth as a sacred Ibis to give knowledge. In the tombs in one area of ​​Egypt, up to 1.5 million mummified birds were found, although the punishment for killing the sacred Ibis was death.

The species was important because he ate a certain snail that carried the parasite bilharzia, which is harmful to the human liver. Sacred ibisThey fed these snails and created holes that were filled with water and which the Egyptians used as bathing places. After the species has disappeared from this country, the disease parasite bilharzia increased.

These birds live in freshwater lagoons, swamps or on the banks of the river. You can also find them on pastures or fields that have been flooded. In some areas, the sacred IBIS finds houses in wastewater treatment plants or at landfill sites, sometimes in herds up to 300.

Sacred Ibis behaves normally during the rainy season or in flooded regions during the drought period. Up to 2,000 pairs of birds can nest on the ground, trees or shrubs. The male Ibis collects sticks and branches for a woman to build a nest, where she puts two to five eggs at a time. Young hatch in 21 days and leave the nest after two or three weeks.

BUGS Jakrikrocets, Grasships and Grasships form the main diet of sacred Ibis. Will also eat frogs, worms, fishand snails. If his favorite food is not available, Ibis will eat crocodile eggs and eggs of other birds, but it was also known to eat pieces of human food near restaurants. Birds feed on in groups during the day and nest as it darkens.