Breakfast with the Ibis
by Sarah Sever
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Title
Breakfast with the Ibis
Artist
Sarah Sever
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art, Paintography
Description
An early morning breakfast!
Seen here is a juvenile Black-headed Ibis foraging a twisted tree trunk in the wetlands. His thin downward-curved beak and long legs are designed to help him forage the shallow pools. This waterfowl can also forage underwater with his entire head submerged!
Particularly liked by farmers, as they get the water-snails out of their farms and generally help keep their waters and farms clean.
A close cousin to the now extinct Egyptian Sacred Ibis, Ibises symbolize wisdom, knowledge and writing (like the Indian Goddess Saraswati!)
The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs feature the ibis as the first letter. While the Ibis, as the human hybrid form of Thoth and in its own form, occurs across art forms in Egypt.
These water waders, lack a voice - and mainly communicate with the clacking of their bills, if at all. Colonial by nature, they are always found in flocks - while here is an instance of the juvenile feeding "alone" but not too far from the alert eye of the flock!
The black-headed Ibis, is a near threatened species. It has a low breeding success in the wild, especially with growing urbanization and rapidly disappearing marshes and wetlands. Most nests see a survival rate of 0.01 and the growing chick needs care upto 45-55 days after hatching.
I noticed this particular teen, near Hambantota, Sri Lanka.
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December 9th, 2016
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