Hadada Ibis

Hagedasch ( Bostrychia hagedash )

The Hagedasch ( Bostrychia hagedash ) is an African bird of the family of ibises.

The Hagedasch is relatively common in eastern and southern Africa south of the Sahara. It also occurs in West Africa, but is there something more rare.

Subspecies

• B. h brevirostris ( Reichenow, 1907)
• B. h hagedash ( Latham, 1790)
• B. h nilotica ( Neumann, 1909)

Appearance

The Hagedasch is 65-76 inches tall and weighs about 1,250 g depending on the subspecies vary the basic color of the plumage between gray and olive-brown, the upper wing-coverts metallic green shimmer. Unlike many other ibises he has no striking crested feathers. The ibisartig downwardly curved beak is similarly colored like the plumage.

Behavior

Like most ibis is also the Hagedasch a sociable bird, the swarms usually have a size of 5-30 individuals, sometimes up to 200 Flying Animals often leave hear their loud distinctive reputation.

Food and foraging

The food of Hagedasch consists of insects and their larvae, worms, snails and their eggs, grasshoppers, spiders, more rarely, from small mammals, reptiles and amphibians. The food addiction of the bird on typical Ibisart by poking his beak into the ground.

Reproduction

The nests are built of twigs, grass and leaves on horizontal branches in trees, sometimes in bushes or on telegraph poles. The two or three eggs are incubated in 25 to 28 days. The young birds fledge after about 49 to 50 days.