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	Sacred Ibis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, SE Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.
		It builds a stick nest often in a Baobab.and lays 2-3 eggs.
		The Sacred Ibis occurs in marshy wetlands and muflats, both inland and on the coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacred_Ibis (298 words)

	IBIS - LoveToKnow Article on IBIS
		The ibis is somewhat larger than a curlew, Numenius arquata, which bird it resembles, with a much stouter bill and stouter legs.
		The glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, found throughout the West Indies, Central and the south-eastern part of North America, as well as in many parts of Europe (whence it not unfrequently strays to the British Islands), Africa, Asia and Australia.
		This bird, believed to be the second kind of ibis spoken of by Herodotus, is rather smaller than the sacred ibis, and mostly of a dark chestnut color with brilliant green and purple reflections on the upper parts, exhibiting, however, when young none of the rufous hue.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IB/IBIS.htm (730 words)

	Ibises \| Animal Facts \| Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopica) - White plumage with a fl head, neck, bill and legs, and a purple-fl 'bustle" of feathers over the tail as on cranes.
		Carvings of the sacred ibis are found in many Egyptian monuments and tombs and they were also mummified and buried in the temples with the pharaohs.
		It is less gregarious than the sacred ibis and is found in lakes, rivers, marshes and paddy fields of India through Assam to Burma and Southeast Asia.
	www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/ibises.html (1153 words)

	Pointe-a-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ibis are found in North America, Africa, Madagascar, Eurasia (except the northern areas), Australia, Central and South America, and Trinidad.
		The Scarlet Ibis is scarlet in colour - the feathers being coloured through the synthesis of carotene present in some of their food (Fiddler and Aratus crabs, shrimp, algae and aquatic insects).
		Ibis are considered adults when they are about 2 years old- by this time they have gained their bright red colour.
	users.carib-link.net /~wildfowl/ibis.htm (445 words)

	Ibis
		Sacred ibises are native to Africa and Madagascar.
		The ancient Egyptians venerated the Sacred Ibis and made it an integral part of their religion and of their written hieroglyphics.
		In Egypt today the sacred ibis is very rare; it is common only in Africa south of the Sahara.
	www.hilozoo.com /animals/AB_ibis.htm (275 words)

	THE STEEL DEAL: AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS WREAK HAVOC in FRANCE
		The ibis is described as 'nomadic, gregarious, aggressive, omnivorous and highly adaptable', also words that describe that segment of the French population responsible for the riots as opposed to the 'stately, selective, aristocratic and restrained' indigenous French native.
		The sacred ibis was first introduced from Africa in the mid-1970s to a nature park in the Morbihan department of southern Brittany, where a pair lived in semi-liberty.
		Rumours of the damage caused by sacred ibis were largely anecdotal until two years ago when rangers at Noirmoutier witnessed at first hand a party of the birds pick its way through a colony of sandwich terns and systematically destroy the eggs of some 40 breeding couples.
	steelturman.typepad.com /thesteeldeal/2006/01/africam_immigra.html (926 words)

	Ibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Hadada Ibis and the Sacred Ibis are similar in size--about 30 inches long.
		Sacred Ibises are common in East Africa and are found throughout Africa south of the Sahara.
		Sacred Ibises are generally silent but sometimes voice a harsh croak.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /ibis.htm (316 words)

	The White Falcon Project - Magellan's Strait, Tierra del Fuego
		Ibis, common name for any of about 30 species of long-legged, long-necked wading birds of the same family as the spoonbills.
		The sacred ibis is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
		The bald ibis is classified as Geronticus eremita, the sacred ibis as Threskiornis aethiopicus, the white ibis as Eudocimus albus, the scarlet ibis as Eudocimus ruber, and the white-faced ibis as Plegadis chihi.
	www.opi.state.mt.us /wtfalcon/LagnaAzu.HTML (700 words)

	Egypt: Tour Egypt Monthly: The Animals of Ancient Egypt
		Sacred to Horus, the falcon (or hawk) was thought to be the guardian of the ruler, and is frequently found as spreading its wings protectively behind the head of the pharaoh.
		Sacred ibises were mummified during the Late Period and Ptolemaic times, and buried in large numbers in different catacombs through Egypt.
		The hermit ibis is not a waterside bird, so it is depicted less frequently than the other two birds that were common along the banks of the Nile.
	www.egyptmonth.com /mag06012001/magf7.htm (1985 words)

	ANIMAL BYTES - Sacred Ibis
		The sacred ibis is mostly white with a fl head and neck and some fl plumes in the tail.
		Sacred ibis live in large colonies near waterways throughout Africa.
		In ancient Egyptian societies, the sacred ibis was worshipped as the god Thoth and was supposed to preserve the country from plagues and serpents.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/ciconiiformes/sacred-ibis.htm (357 words)

	Institut fuer Aegyptologie Muenchen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The sacred animal of the processions in the town was a goat instead as reported for the town of Mendes in the Delta.
		Ibis and falcon were the most important birds of the coronation, but also vultures or kites and other birds, having a function in the primeval scenery too and acting also as protective standard-gods of the king, the military units and the temples sites.
		Sacred animals of a town and burials of sacred animals in a cemetery were two sides of the same religious cycle, belonging to the renewal of the protective city-gods.
	www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de /aegyp/tuna.html (6862 words)

	Binghamton Zoo Animals
		Sacred Ibises are social, feeding in groups and using communal roosting areas.
		The reasoning for this worship of the Sacred Ibis may be because the flocks arrived in Egypt with the annual rising and flooding of the Nile, which was itself a symbol of rebirth.
		The fl and white plumage was probably also a factor, as the fl feathers symbolized night or death, and the white feathers symbolized the light of the sun or life.
	www.rossparkzoo.com /animals/ibissacred.htm (448 words)

	Joycean: James Joyce » Essays
		The bird-girl is described as a "darkplumaged dove" (171) and it may be seen that her dark plumage represents that of the sacred ibis’ tertiaries.
		She is called a dove in this sentence to connect the image of the sacred bird of Catholicism to the pagan, mythical sacred bird, the ibis.
		Stephen is also an ibis in that his painful obsession and discomfort with nakedness is represented in the sacred ibis’ naked head (this may be stretching it a bit).
	www.joycean.org /index.php?p=37 (1830 words)

	ibis on Encyclopedia.com
		IBIS [ibis], common name for wading birds with long, slender, decurved bills, found in the warmer regions of both hemispheres.
		Ibis Technology Announces Final Customer Acceptance of Oxygen Implanter; SUMCO grants final acceptance for their first Ibis i2000 implanter, while their second i2000 prepares for factory acceptance testing at Ibis.
		Sacred Ibis is also found widely in the wetlands of Africa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/i1/ibis.asp (732 words)

	IBIS - Online Information article about IBIS
		They, however, removed it from the Linnaean genus Tantalus and, Lacepede having some years before founded a genus Ibis, it was transferred thither, and is now generally known as I. aethiopica, though some speak of it as I. religiosa.
		company with herons, while the eggs of all other ibises whose eggs are known resemble those of the sacred ibis.
		error especially among painters—that this bird was the sacred ibis of the Egyptians.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/IBIS.html (1087 words)

	Scarlet Ibis
		The Scarlet Ibis, most beautiful of all the Ibis family, derives its name from the Greek meaning “religious worship, sacred bird”;.
		The Ancient Egyptians venerated the old world “Sacred Ibis” as part of their religion, and often mummified the birds and buried them in temples and with Pharaohs.
		The Scarlet Ibis is the national birds of Trinidad and Tobago, where they are also naturally found.
	www.jerusalemzoo.org.il /english/upload/month/Sibis.html (339 words)

	White or Sacred Ibis
		The Australian White Ibis (Sacred Ibis) Threskiornis molucca (T. aethiopica) is often seen at Bushy Park Wetlands.
		Ibis are also a frequent scavenger at many garbage tips, fowlyards, pigpens and city parks.
		Ibis breed in very large dense colonies, often in company with other waterbirds.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~fbpw/w_ibis.htm (309 words)

	ZOO BRNO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the Brno Zoo, the first of this year’s young sacred ibises (Threskiornis aethiopicus) hatched on 8th May. Over a month later, on 16th June to be exact, when the parents stopped feeding their progeny, enabling it to fledge, another young ibis hatched in the same nest.
		The ibis is not a migrating bird, should it appear free somewhere in Europe, it surely did not stray there from Africa but escaped from captivity.
		Certainly, it is due to the important role that the sacred ibis played in a significant chapter of development of the human civilization.
	www.zoobrno.cz /english/zooreport/report024_e.htm (4441 words)

	Drought refugees chased out of town - National - smh.com.au
		At least 200 of the rowdy and hungry birds, also known as Australian white ibis, have fled the drought of inland NSW where they normally nest and moved into the inner city tourist precinct.
		Species such as ibis, pelicans, cormorants and swans have all gravitated to where there is still habitat.
		He appealed to Sydneysiders to be patient with the ibis and other species such as galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos taking refuge in Sydney.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/31/1067566089063.html (465 words)

	Egypt: Animals and the Gods of Ancient Egypt
		But the crocodile was also sacred to Sobek, who was portrayed as a human with the head of a crocodile, or as the crocodile itself.
		hb - Regarded as the reincarnation of Thoth, the sacred ibis was sacred to the god of knowledge, who had the form of an ibis-headed man. The Akhu, part of the soul, was written with the sign of a crested ibis, known as the Akhu-bird.
		The scorpion was sacred to Isis, who was thought to have been protected by scorpions while Horus was young.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/animalgods.htm (1910 words)

	The Animals of Ancient Egypt
		Bulls were sacred to Ra as they had a strong connection with solar imagery to the ancient Egyptians.
		It was during the Late Period that sacred cats were mummified in large numbers, and placed in underground galleries such as at Per-Bast (Bubastis).
		But the dog, and the jackal, were regarded as sacred to Anubis, where they were buried as sacred animals to the god of embalming at the catacombs at Anubieion.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animals.html (2026 words)

	Exhibit
		Sacred animals, domesticated animals and animals that played a role in legends are to be met in an ambiance of temples, palaces and creepy alley's.
		This is a climatic diagram for the closest weather station.
		The nesting inlets for the hermit ibis are situated in the city walls.
	www.zoolex.org /zoolexcgi/view.py?id=184 (300 words)

	Johannesburg Hiking Club \| Free State \| Not the Sacred Ibis but ...
		The Bald Ibis hiking trail offers a two-day backpacking trail and two day trail option from the base camp.
		The Bald Ibis trails will appeal to all hikers – from the hiker who prefers a base camp and shorter trails to the hiker who prefers to backpack and sleep out, especially in a cave.
		The Bald Ibis trail is ideal for informal conferences and to build team spirit.
	www.jhbhiking.org.za /cms/index.php?id=321,0,0,1,0,0 (409 words)

	Details of the object
		The ibis was sacred to Thoth, the god of wisdom and learning, the mythical master of language and inventor of writing, the calculator of time, the healer and the magician.
		was also often accompanied by the goddess Maat, the guarantor of cosmic order, which may explain the placing of the small openwork base in front of the ibis as most probably she was placed upon it.
		The ibis here is carefully executed with a noble and dignified attitude.
	www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg /details.asp?which2=662 (92 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Reunion Flightless Ibis
		The vernacular name "Réunion Flightless Ibis" is misleading, since travellers' reports as well as bone measurements indicate that it was well on its way to flightlessness, but could still fly some distance after a running take-off.
		It seems likely that the 'solitaire' known from numerous early accounts from Réunion was in fact this ibis, vindicating arguments for independent evolution of the Mascarene 'solitaires', in which case its extinction can be placed in the early 18th century with the last account being that of Feuilley in 1705.
		The closest relative of this species is the Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopica from Africa.
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/reunionflightlessibis.htm (334 words)

	Australian White Ibis
		The Australian White Ibis is identified by its almost entirely white body plumage and fl head and neck.
		Another common name for this bird is Sacred Ibis, but this more appropriately refers to a closely related African species.
		The Australian White Ibis can be observed in all but the driest habitats.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/australian_white_Ibis.htm (371 words)

	Sacred Ibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When this ibis flies, bare patches of skin under the wings and at the sides of the breast show as scarlet.
		Herodotus, the Greek historian and traveler writing in the fifth century BC., noted that the secular killing of this ibis, whether intentional or not, was punishable by death.
		We now know that a snail, a main food of the ibis, is the host of the bilharzia parasite.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azsacred_ibis.html (421 words)

	Shamanism Animal Spirit Guidies Core
		Ibis was an important creature to the Egyptians.
		Thoth, guardian of the Moon Gates, was the deity of record keeping and magick.
		Thoth, in the form of Ibis, hovered above the Egyptians and taught them the occult arts and sciences.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/4076/index32.html (105 words)

	Ibis
		Ibis is the social butterfly, gets C's (enough to get by), visits with friends instead of doing her schoolwork, loves recess and lunch, and is everybody's friend.
		She has gone to coursing practices, and each time has chased the lure a ways, then gone to visit the judges, the spectators, or the concession stand.
		Like her breeder says, "If she ain't gonna do it, she ain't gonna do it!" We both agree Ibis is a great basenji, and a wonderful show dog.
	www.geocities.com /rugosab/Ibis.htm (235 words)

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