Details for Scarlet Ibis

• Scarlet Ibis

  The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) is a spectacularly colored wading bird native to tropical South America and coastal regions of the Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago, where it is the national bird. It is famous for its brilliant scarlet-red plumage, which intensifies with age and comes from the carotenoid pigments in its diet of crustaceans and small fish. Scarlet ibises live in large colonies in mangroves, swamps, and estuaries. They have long, decurved bills which they use to probe for food in mud.

  

  Habitat: The Scarlet Ibis lives in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad-and-tobago.