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Spot-breasted Ibis

Bostrychia rara(Rothschild, LW; Hartert, EJO; Kleinschmidt, O, 1897)

English (US) Spot-breasted Ibis

The Spot-breasted Ibis (Bostrychia rara) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills) in the order Pelecaniformes.

Range: Liberia to Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and far northeastern AngolaRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Bostrychia rara
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Spot-breasted Ibis
Described by
(Rothschild, LW; Hartert, EJO; Kleinschmidt, O, 1897)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Lampribis rara
Described by
(Rothschild, LW; Hartert, EJO; Kleinschmidt, O, 1897)
Type locality
Denkera, Gold Coast, ex. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, pi. 51.
Original description
Novitates Zoologicae 4 p.377

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 36 species of the family Threskiornithidae