Bird

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in 20 of 100 counties, across 9 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 20 of 100 counties
Habitats: 9

Adult Glossy Ibis, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) Valentin Moser, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 251476822. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 20 of 100 counties
Habitats: 9
Habitat models: Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 9

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

1 of 9

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain ForestNamed place / source context. Shown: Congaree Swamp National Monument floodplain forest, South Carolina; representative illustration, no exact viewpoint, a neighboring state.fallen (uprooted) tree, John Dawson, by1988. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested WetlandNamed place / source context. Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, as titled by Museum of Fine Arts Boston; nineteenth-century artistic interpretationView, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux, 1850. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

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.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Year-roundOnly within 120 m of water.Cultivated CroplandLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)*Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"*, Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Other habitats in its models (21)

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

Elsewhere in the South (17)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Year-round.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round.
South Florida Cypress Dome Year-round.
South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome Year-round.

Northeast (2)

Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round.

Land cover and other classes (2)

Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Year-round: nests here, in 20 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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.