ibis

He told him of the red ibises, who stand in long rows on the banks of the Nile, and catch gold-fish in their beaks; of the Sphinx, who is as old as the world itself, and lives in the desert, and knows everything; of the merchants, who walk slowly by the side of their camels, and carry amber beads in their hands; of the King of the Mountains of the Moon, who is as black as ebony, and worships a large crystal; of the great green snake that sleeps in a palm-tree, and has twenty priests to feed it with honey-cakes; and of the pygmies who sail over a big lake on large flat leaves, and are always at war with the butterflies.

He read of the swallows that fly in and out of the little cafe at Smyrna where the Hadjis sit counting their amber beads and the turbaned merchants smoke their long tasselled pipes and talk gravely to each other; he read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile, where there are Sphinxes, and rose-red ibises, and white vultures with gilded claws, and crocodiles with small beryl eyes that crawl over the green steaming mud; he began to brood over those verses which, drawing music from kiss-stained marble, tell of that curious statue that Gautier compares to a contralto voice, the "monstre charmant" that couches in the porphyry-room of the Louvre.

Isises, and Ibises, and Cheopses, and Pharaohses; who cares about them?

A nesting area of the African sacred ibises has been removed in Chiayi County after fears it would affect the native bird population, reports said Friday.

At least 320 white-shouldered ibises have been recorded since BirdLife launched a census on October 15 last year, it added.

In 2007, a reintroduction project was implemented in Dongzhai National Nature Reserve, Henan Province, and 78 crested ibises were released between 2013 and 2015, with the aim of establishing a self-sustaining wild population outside the Qinling Mountains, where crested ibis was first reintroduced.

They recently launched a study to find out the impact of human feeding on white ibises in south Florida, Science Daily reported.

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A conservation center on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, put on public display Tuesday four crested ibises born last year to ibises presented to Japan by China, center officials said.

Pictures of the six chicks hatched this year from eggs laid by two pairs of crested ibises -- Yang Yang and You You, and Mei Mei and Yu Yu -- were made public Friday.

The center was home to the male and female ibises that produced Japan's first ibis bred in captivity, "Yu Yu," last year through artificial incubation at the Sado Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture.

The bird hatched May 21 at the Sado Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Sadogashima Island from an egg laid by a bird donated by China, culminating an 18-year effort in Japan to breed ibises in captivity.