Birds of India - The New Synopsis

A complete checklist of bird species and subspecies found in India

Pelecaniformes (Pelicans, Ibises, and Herons)

Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills)

• Plegadis Kaup, 1829 Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und natürliches System der Europäischen Thierwelt (etc.) p.82 Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, 1766; Type by monotypy
  • 357. Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766) [HB#71]
    Original Description: Tantalus Falcinellus Linnaeus, 1766 Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] 12, p.241
    Distribution: Throughout India from Ladakh and Kashmir as well as Brahmaputra plains, Manipur valley and Tripura; sporadic in EC India and have occurred in Lakshadweep and Andaman Is.
    Specimens: BNHS, ZSI, FMNH, ROM, LKO
    IUCN: Least Concern. SoIB: Low. WLPA: Schedule-II. CMS: Appendix II.
    Notes: Current range significantly more than historic range. Though known to breed locally across the peninsula, population fluctuations and ring recoveries indicate that extralimital migration is also involved (Balachandran et al. 2018, Indian Bird Migration Atlas p. 149).
  
  
• Pseudibis Hodgson, 1844 The zoological miscellany 3 p.86 Ibis papillosa Temminck, 1824; Type by monotypy
  • 358. Red-naped Ibis Pseudibis papillosa (Temminck, 1824) [HB#70]
    Original Description: Ibis papillosa Temminck, 1824 Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.51 pl.304, text (India and Sri Lanka)
    Alternative Names: Indian Black Ibis
    Distribution: Throughout the peninsula from south of the Himalayan foothills till the southern tip and east till W Assam. Only stragglers to SW India.
    Specimens: BNHS, ZSI, UMZC, UMMZ, AMNH, FMNH, MCZ, ROM, USNM, FTLB
    IUCN: Least Concern. SoIB: Low. WLPA: Schedule-II.
  
  
• Platalea Linnaeus, 1758 Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.139 Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758; Type by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, A list of the genera of birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus, p.67)
  • 359. Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758
    Alternative Names: Spoonbill
    IUCN: Least Concern. SoIB: High. WLPA: Schedule-I. CITES: Appendix I. CMS: Appendix II.
    • 359a. Platalea leucorodia leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758 [HB#72]
      Original Description: Platalea Leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758 Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.139
      Distribution: Throughout India from about Punjab and Himachal down south; east till about W Bengal and straggling to Brahmaputra plains in Assam.
      Specimens: BNHS, ZSI, UMMZ, FMNH, MCZ, ROM, FTLB
      Notes: Ring recoveries indicate extralimital population is involved (Balachandran et al. 2018, Indian Bird Migration Atlas p. 151).
  
  
• Threskiornis Gray, 1842 Appendix to a list of the genera of birds Ed.2 Appendix p.13 Tantalus aethiopicus Latham, 1790; Type by original designation
  • 360. Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus (Latham, 1790) [HB#69]
    Original Description: Tantalus melanocephalus Latham, 1790 Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 2 p.709 (Puducherry [= Pondicherry])
    Alternative Names: White Ibis, Oriental White Ibis
    Distribution: Throughout India except Kashmir, trans and high Himalaya and most of E Himalaya.
    Type Specimen: MNHN#MO-1992-373 (Lecotype).
    Specimens: BNHS, ZSI, MNHN, UMMZ, AMNH, FMNH, MCZ, TNHM
    IUCN: Least Concern. SoIB: Low. WLPA: Schedule-II.