Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

The birds that use these wetlands include the Freckled Duck ( Stictonetta naevosa ), Musk Duck ( Biziura lobata ), Silver Gull ( Larus novaehollandiae ), Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ), Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), Glossy Ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus ), and Banded Stilt ( Cladorhynchus leucocephalus ).

They observed individuals of the two species mating and pairing, as well as hybrid ibises with pale orange plumage, or white plumage with occasional orange feathers, and have proposed that these birds be classified as a single species, The mascot was initially known as Ibis before adopting the name Sebastian in 1957.

There exist a few reports of " solitaires " from the Mascarenes without mention of which island these came from, and the term was also used for other species with " solitary " habits, such as the Réunion Blue Swamphen and the Réunion Sacred Ibis.

Of these, 19 are endemic and 3 near endemic ; in addition, the local subspecies of Olive Ibis ( Bostrychia olivacea bocagei ) is endemic and considered critically endangered.

Many of these will be in the 4 and 5 star bracket supplementing the 2 / 3 star boom already ongoing with the likes of Ibis and Premier Travel Inn.

Contemporaneous with these during the early MN18 faunal stage – about 2 million years ago ( mya ) – birds entirely indistinguishable from the modern Northern Bald Ibis inhabited at least Spain, if not the whole western Mediterranean region already.

Johann Georg Wagler gave the species its current binomial name in 1832 when he erected the new genus Eudocimus, whose only other species is the Scarlet Ibis ( E. ruber ).

From his home in Chelsea he continued to publish notes and his last publication in the Ibis was the description of a new genus and species of bird Liocichla steerii.

Other papers described new species appeared in the Ibis and other journals between 1890 and 1917.

An extinct species, the Jamaican Ibis or Clubbed-wing Ibis ( Xenicibis xympithecus ) was uniquely characterized by its club-like wings.

The African Sacred Ibis was an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth.

According to local legend in the Birecik area, the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released from the Ark as a symbol of fertility, and a lingering religious sentiment in Turkey helped the colonies there to survive long after the demise of the species in Europe.

The American White Ibis was one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name of Scolopax albus.

It was named after San Sebastian Hall, a residence hall on campus, which sponsored an Ibis entry in the college's homecoming celebration.

The Northern Bald Ibis was once widespread across the Middle East, northern Africa, southern and central Europe, with a fossil record dating back at least 1. 8 million years.

The Northern Bald Ibis was described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his Historiae animalium in 1555, and given the binomial name Upupa eremita by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 Systema Naturae.

It was initially described by Georges Cuvier in 1829 as Ibis molucca.

Ibis ( bec croche ) was also eaten.

Newton was a leader in founding the British Ornithologists ' Union in 1858, and its quarterly journal, the Ibis in 1859.

The Reunion Ibis or Réunion Sacred Ibis ( Threskiornis solitarius ) is an extinct bird species that was native to the island of Réunion.

A fossil upper jaw showed that the bill was short and straight for an Ibis.

The following year, he was posted to HMS Ibis but that November, the sloop was sunk in the Bay of Algiers.

He was a regular published in The Ibis after 1860 and later to the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.

It was formerly called the " Wood Ibis ", though it is not really an ibis.

Thoth became a priest of Ibis, studying alongside Kharantus's son Kalanthes, until he began to lust after more power.

The BOAC DC-3 Ibis had been operating on a scheduled Lisbon – Whitchurch route throughout 1942 – 1943 that did not pass over what would commonly be referred to as a war zone.

Cœdès called him Jayavarman Ibis, but probably he is identical with Jayavarman II, the founding father of the Angkorian kingdom, as Vickery has pointed out: " Not only was Jayavarman II from the South ; more than any other known king, he had particular ­ ly close links with Vyādhapura.

He collected many specimens in an 1898-1891 expedition to Uganda, and descriptions of this collection were published in a five-part paper in the Ibis in 1891-1892.

* June 1 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), on a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, all 17 persons aboard perish, including the actor Leslie Howard.

Other species that have been noted there include Dunlin, Sanderling, Whimbrel, several ( escaped ) Flamingos, Avocets and on one occasion a Glossy Ibis.

Thurzó went to Csejte Castle on 30 December 1610 and arrested Báthory and four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices: Dorotya Semtész, Ilona Jó, Kataínka Benická, and János Újváry (" Ibis " or Ficko ).

A box truss fuselage structure can also be built out of wood — often covered with plywood — as can be seen on this Ibis canard fuselage.

In the middle of the room stands a metal case, with the emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library our heroes first saw in Egypt, an Ibis symbolizing Thoth, the Egyptian deity of wisdom and writing, and an inscription on a metal plate by the last survivor of Drakeborough, saying that he had the library condensed into one single volume with every information no other surviving book in the world included.

This not only explains why the Guidebook facilitated them to follow the trail of the Lost Library all over the world with its enormous knowledge base, but also the fact the Junior Woodchuck's logo, based on the letters J and two Ws, looks uncannily like the Ibis Emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library.

The species has protected status throughout the world, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified the Scarlet Ibis as a species of Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

The diet of the Glossy Ibis is variable according to the seaonand is very dependant on what is available.

The Glossy Ibis is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

* Glossy Ibis videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

Fossils of the Northern Bald Ibis have been found at a Holocene ( c. 10, 000 years ago ) site in southern France, in middle Pleistocene ( c. 900, 000 ago ) strata in Sicily, and in Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary ( c. 1. 8 million years ago ) deposits on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

* T. m. pygmaeus ( Solomons White Ibis ) is a dwarf form found on the Solomon Islands that has been considered a separate species at times.

The supposed " White Dodo " of Réunion is now believed to have been an erroneous conjecture based on contemporary reports of the Réunion Sacred Ibis, combined with paintings by Pieter Withoos and Pieter Holsteyn from the 1600s of white Dodos that surfaced in the 19th century.

The Reunion Ibis lived solitarily in deep forests, likely near freshwater, where it fed on invertebrates like worms and crustaceans which it caught or dug out of the mud with its long beak.

* Marie Jules César Savigny publishes Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l ' Ibis in Paris, the first illustrated monograph on the ibis.

The last known Japan-born Japanese Crested Ibis died in captivity in 2003 on the island.

File: Nipponia nippon 20091230131054. png | Crested Ibis nearby Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island

Meinertzhagen wrote numerous papers for scientific journals such as the Ibis, as well as reports on intelligence work while in the army.

Due to small population size and ongoing habitat loss through logging of lowland forests and drainage of wetlands for agriculture, the White-shouldered Ibis is evaluated as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Large numbers of Straw-necked Ibis and, to a lesser extent, Australian White Ibis, nest and roost on the islands and fly daily to the mainland for feeding.