Southern Bald Ibis
Straight neck Rapp ( Geronticus calvus )
The smooth neck Rapp or Glattnackenibis ( Geronticus calvus ) is a rare Ibis, who lives in southern Africa.
Appearance
The smooth neck Rapp is 80 inches long, has a weight of about 1.3 kilograms and is similar to a forest Rapp with bright face, but he lacks the tuft.
Dissemination
Straight neck centimes only live in the mountain regions of southern South Africa, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland, especially in the Drakensberg. Straight neck centimes prefer high-altitude grasslands 1200-1850 m with short grasses.
Food
Straight neck centimes eat caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers and other insects, also snails and worms and small dead mammals, lizards and birds.
Behavior
They are colony breeders like most ibises. In June, they return to their colonies, which often include only two to five, but partly also several dozen nests. The females lay between early August and late September, two or three eggs. At two months the young Glattnackenibisse are airworthy.
Today there are only about 7,000 to 10,000 Straight neck centimes.