Bird

White-faced Ibis

Plegadis chihi

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 63 of 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 63 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 6

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At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 63 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 6
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 6

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 6

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerWinter

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

SummerWinter

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterOnly within 4,000 m of water.Cultivated Cropland

Other habitats in its models (41)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (2)

Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.

Midwest (5)

Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer.
Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer.

West (28)

California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Colorado Plateau Mixed Low Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Silver Sagebrush Seasonally Flooded Shrub-Steppe Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
Columbia Plateau Vernal Pool Summer.
Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Greasewood Flat Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Playa Summer.
Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer and winter.
North American Warm Desert Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer.
Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Northern Rocky Mountain Wooded Vernal Pool Summer.
Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, only within 4,000 m of water.
Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer and winter, only within 4,000 m of water.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer.
Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer.

Land cover and other classes (6)

Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, only within 4,000 m of water.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Year-round: nests here, in 38 of 64 parishes.
Migratory: does not nest here, in 34 of 64 parishes.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.