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Ibises and egrets, startling white, fly out of the canopy.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 9, 2011

Ibises, with wings clipped to keep them from flying away, stalked through papyrus grass and hunted frogs under the lily pads.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Australia has representatives of the Ibises, Spoonbills, Storks, Herons, Egrets, Night Herons, and Bitterns, so well known in every part of the world.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

Ibises grey and red sat and nodded on the rocks, looking like rows of soldiers and riflemen, while the woods resounded with the cries of strange birds and the chattering of innumerable monkeys.

From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon

Still higher, on gaunt branches of giant cypresses a hundred feet above our heads, great, grotesque Wood Ibises were standing on their nests, or taking flight for their feeding grounds a dozen miles southward.

From The Bird Study Book by Pearson, Thomas Gilbert