Second Record of White Ibis in North Dakota

Authors

Jennifer W. Marlow, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Lawrence D. Igl, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research CenterFollow
Melody R. Hartman, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Date of this Version

1996

Comments

Published in The Prairie Naturalist 28(3): September 1996.

Abstract

The breeding range of the white ibis (Eudocimus albus) in the United States is generally restricted to coastal regions along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean north to Virginia (Frederick et al. 1996, Conserv. BioI. 10:203-216). During the breeding season, the white ibis is nomadic and highly opportunistic in its use of unpredictable food resources (Frederick et al. 1996; Bildstein 1993, White ibis: wetland wanderer. Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.). There is one previous record of a white ibis in North Dakota on 4 August 1954 (Gammell and Huenecke 1955, Audubon Field Notes 9:34-36; Lokemoen 1979, Prairie Nat. 11 :97-110). Here, we report an account of the second white ibis for North Dakota.