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Spot-breasted Ibis
Bostrychia rara (Rothschild, Hartert, EJO & Kleinschmidt, 1897)
Threskiornithidae — Ibises, Spoonbills
Spot-breasted Ibis, Bostrychia rara, is a resident of lowland forest and swampy wooded areas in West and Central Africa, from Sierra Leone to Ghana and from southern Nigeria to Gabon and southern DR Congo. It is a forest ibis that lives in dense tropical rainforest and near streams, where it is rarely encountered. Its most useful field mark is the buff-spotted neck, breast and belly. The species was described in 1897 and belongs to the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae, in the order Pelecaniformes.
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae — Ibises, Spoonbills
- Breeding range
- Africa: Sierra Leone to Ghana, s Nigeria to Gabon and s DR Congo
