Straw-necked ibis

Weight

1.24 kg – 1.47 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Wingspan

1 m – 1.2 msrc for Wingspan

Lifespan

39.4 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Omnivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grasslandsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

2.75 – 3.2src for Young per litter or clutch

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Migration

Sedentarysrc for Migration

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The straw-necked ibis is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The straw-necked ibis is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderPelecaniformes
5. familyThreskiornithidae
6. genusThreskiornis
7. SpeciesThreskiornis spinicollis (Jameson, 1835)

Synonyms Carphibis spinicollis, Carphibis spinicollis fitzroi, Ibis lamellicollis, Ibis spinicollis

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataWoRMSIUCN Red List

LC, Least Concern

African sacred ibis

Threskiornis aethiopicus

Threskiornithidae

LC, Least Concern

B

Black-headed ibis

Threskiornis melanocephalus

ThreskiornithidaeNo free photo yet

LC, Least Concern

Australian white ibis

Threskiornis molucca

Threskiornithidae

R

Reunion ibis

Threskiornis solitarius

ThreskiornithidaeNo free photo yet

EN, Endangered

Malagasy sacred ibis

Threskiornis bernieri

Threskiornithidae

CompareStraw-necked ibis vs African sacred ibisStraw-necked ibis vs Black-headed ibisStraw-necked ibis vs Australian white ibisStraw-necked ibis vs Reunion ibis

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@misc{straw_necked_ibis_2026,
  title = {Straw-necked ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/straw-necked-ibis},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}