A crudely painted plywood sign showing bulbous ibis and spoonbills asks that you not disturb the birds. |
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Saxey tells of the secret shame of being in Neverwhere II, if only for a second, with the head of an ibis painted over you. |
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards. |
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It's not every day that I wake up to the calls of hadada ibis, or to the sight of a giraffe peering at me through the trees. |
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A glossy ibis waded between the bulrushes and black swallows dipped in and out of the water. |
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The sacred ibis is the most common and usually has a black and white neck and beak. |
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Lismore Lake provides a variety of habitat for swamp hen, ibis, egrets, and herons as well as many small waders. |
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Among the Kikuyu of Kenya, a person of advanced age is said to be as old as Kagogo, the vernacular reference to the hadada ibis. |
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The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians. |
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What would happen to the scarlet ibis, our pride and joy and a national symbol? |
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There were masses of ducks, black swans, tremendous numbers of ibis, and a huge congregation of plovers. |
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Tawaret has the head of a hippo, Thoth the head of an ibis, and the great sun god Ra is rowed across the heavens in a boat. |
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About 50 species were recorded there including long distance migrants like pallid harriers, ruff and reeves, white ibis, comb ducks, etc. |
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The 40-square-mile Caroni Swamp is the home of Trinidad's national bird, the scarlet ibis. |
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But then, when the aggressive ibis flew away from the jacana's territory to the far side of the lake, two jacanas came out of hiding. |
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As well as being represented as an Ibis or a man with an ibis head he showed up as a baboon a lot. |
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The ibis has an exotic air with its burgundy plumage and oddly curved beak. |
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A gaggle of ibis roosting in a nearby tree hooted fearfully. |
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Birds such as currawongs are increasing in number and competing with smaller birds for food and habitat, while ibis are growing bolder in their dealings with people. |
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There are also ibis, peacocks, falcons, eagles, griffins, harts, antelopes, gazelles, elephants and camels. |
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The ground colour of ibis eggs may be spotted or blotched with brown, but the eggs of most others are plain. |
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Coots, ducks and flamingos clustered around the fringes of shallow tarns whilst great flocks of upland geese, buff-necked ibis and lapwing settled on the plains to feed. |
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Thoth is represented in the shape of an ibis or as a man with the head of an ibis, or in the shape of a baboon. |
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Birds such as the ibis, shrike, and grosbeak can be found in Sao Tome and Principe. |
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The hadada ibis is surrounded by many legends among African communities. |
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Researchers at the zoo are helping to reintroduce the Przewalski wild horse back into Mongolia, the oryx to Jordan, and the ibis to Morocco. |
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You can also observe osprey there along with the last remaining examples of the bald ibis. |
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An ibis stands close to the first steps of a pyramid, while further away, a temple is surrounded by palm trees. |
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At Vedanthangal one can sight glossy and white ibis, painted storks, grey pelicans, shovellors, garganey, whistling teals, Indian moorhen and dabchicks. |
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It houses over 50 individual birds made up of 12 different species including the sacred ibis, crowned cranes, hammerkop, white-cheeked touraco and lilac breasted roller. |
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More than 100 egrets and sacred ibis, which are protected species, died. |
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In addition to two tigers there is the elephant, the dog, the bear, an ibis. |
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In the Lochinvar, regarded as Zambia's prime birds sanctuary, there is the crested cranes, saddle-bill storks, egrets, wood ibis, vultures and the rare shoebill stork. |
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The Bourgas Lake is a nestling site of pelicans, ibis, and herons. |
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The national birds for Trinidad and Tobago are the scarlet ibis and the cocrico. |
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There are more than 50 aviaries with parrots, falcons, pheasants, hornbills, toucans, touracos, pigeons, ibis and many more. |
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The reserve is home to a wide variety of wildlife species such as herons, storks, ibis, crocodiles, fresh water turtles, manatees and more. |
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Accor has unveiled its economy brand dynamisation strategy to revolutionise its economy brand portfolio around the ibis brand. |
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He listed some of the species — Baikal teal, scaly-sided merganser, Baer's pochard, black-headed ibis, Japanese yellow bunting, hooded crane — that bred or wintered in eastern China and were disappearing. |
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The birds are laid out in alphabetical order, from albatrosses to zosteropidae, with some familiar owls and robins in between, and also many exotic examples, such as the ibis, jacana and quetzal. |
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Seasonally, hundreds of thousands of herons, storks, egrets, grebes, ibis, ducks, and jacanas flock to the area to feed and mate. |
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New elevated walkways bring you eye-to-eye with African jacanas and the rare waldrapp ibis from Morocco. |
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Better news was available for the strongly migratory population of the northern bald ibis that had recently been discovered to be nesting in the Syrian Arab Republic. |
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Birds, especially the scarlet ibis, weave the book's multiple storylines together and provide a moving backdrop for a story that celebrates the often overlooked courage, loyalty and competence of children. |
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We have European bee-eaters, hoopoes, red legged partridges, the white ibis who do us a favour by feeding on worms and bugs along with many others to numerous to mention. |
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Hand-reared sacred ibis Tutan, kookaburra Maidi, red-legged seriema Sergio, ageing eagle owl Ludwig and burrowing owls Bilbo and Hercules are among the birds to have perished. |
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More than 600 valuables have been returned or seized by police, but a collection of gold coins, statues of sacred ibis birds and the statue have still not been found. |
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The Wilpattu National Park in the northwest, the largest national park, preserves the habitats of many water birds such as storks, pelicans, ibis, and spoonbills. |
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At RSPB Malltraeth, a glossy ibis is feeding in the wetland channels, while the lesser yellowlegs is in its fifth week on the Alaw estuary, Llanfachraeth. |
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