Bostrychia


Bostrychia is a genus of ibises in the family Threskiornithidae. Member species are found in many countries throughout Africa.

Species

It contains the following five species:
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Bostrychia carunculataWattled ibisEthiopia
Bostrychia hagedashHadada ibisSudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Somalia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Bostrychia olivaceaOlive ibisCameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire, Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe Island
Bostrychia bocageiSão Tomé ibisSão Tomé
Bostrychia raraSpot-breasted ibisAngola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda

Conservation

Four of these species are evaluated as Least Concern status, but the dwarf olive ibis is Critically Endangered according to the IUCN.