How to Identify Threskiornithidae

Key Identification Features

• The hadada ibis has an extremely loud, distinctive call that sounds like "haa-haa-haa-de-dah", which is the origin of its onomatopoetic common name.
• The bird’s bare whitish head skin is the key identifying feature of this species.
• Its call is a loud, distinct single or double cuk or turuck, or kut and kut-kaaaoh.
• They have distinctive, highly iridescent plumage that can look fairly uniformly dirty dark brown in poor light; their wings are dark, and show an iridescent, multicolored sheen in sunlight.

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