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Several countries have produced postage stamps which depict the Northern Bald Ibis.

The Northern Bald Ibis has declined for several centuries, at least partly as a consequence of unidentified natural causes.

Northern bald ibis in Austria and Italy (ongoing)

These included the Northern Bald Ibis and the Hoopoe, birds now known to be completely unrelated to the choughs.

The Northern Bald Ibis (G. eremita) has a neck crest of elongated feathers.

It is the most threatened passerine bird and the second rarest bird behind the Northern Bald Ibis in Europe.

There are two distinctive populations of Northern Bald Ibis, and the separate ranges of the eastern and western forms should be respected.

These include the Bali Starling, Montserrat Oriole and Northern Bald Ibis.

The park's main conservation importance is that it holds three of the four Moroccan colonies of the Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita.

Northern Bald Ibis, extinct in southern Europe during the Modern Age, has reintroduction projects underway in Austria and Spain.

Endangered species include the northern bald Ibis, Persian fallow deer, Sa'udi Arabian dorcas gazelle, and Asiatic cheetah.

He also contributed to the BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions programme with an image of critically endangered Northern Bald Ibis.

In 1504, a decree by Archbishop Leonhard of Salzburg made the Northern Bald Ibis one of the world's earliest officially protected species.

These include the Northern Bald Ibis, Sociable Lapwing, Spotted Ground-thrush and Basra Reed-warbler.

It is involved in monitoring the critically endangered Northern Bald Ibis in its Moroccan stronghold in the Souss-Massa National Park.

The Northern Bald Ibis was once widespread across the Middle East, northern Africa, southern and central Europe, with a fossil record dating back at least 1.8 million years.

The four watercolors chosen for this show depict a European finch, a male pheasant, a northern bald ibis (now an endangered species) and a bird of prey called Montague's harrier.

The Northern Bald Ibis breeds in loosely spaced colonies, nesting on cliff ledges or amongst boulders on steep slopes, usually on the coast or near a river.

The Northern Bald Ibis' closest relative, and the only other member of the genus, is the Southern Bald Ibis, G. calvus, of southern Africa.

The Northern Bald Ibis is readily distinguished from its close relative, the Southern Bald Ibis of Southern Africa, by the southern species' whitish face.

The Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) is a migratory bird found in barren, semi-desert or rocky habitats, often close to running water.

Johann Georg Wagler moves the Northern Bald Ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)

This is probably the first attempt to breed in the wild in Spain for 500 years as the last definite reference to the Northern Bald Ibis breeding in Spain is from a 15th-century falconry book.

A decree promulgated by Archbishop Leonhard in 1504 was one of the earliest actions in Europe to officially protect threatened animal species, including the Northern Bald Ibis, which nevertheless became extinct in Central Europe.

Contemporaneous with these during the early MN18 faunal stage - about 2 million years ago (mya) - birds entirely indistinguishable from the modern Northern Bald Ibis inhabited at least Spain, if not the whole western Mediterranean region already.

The Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) is a migratory bird found in barren, semi-desert or rocky habitats, often close to running water.

There are now two ibis reintroduction projects in the country, at Grünau and Waldrapp.

The Scharnstein Project is an attempt to establish a migratory Waldrapp colony by using ultralight planes to teach a migration route.

Endangered species include: the waldrapp, Northern White Rhinoceros, Tora Hartebeest, Slender-horned Gazelle, and hawksbill turtle.

BALD IBIS or WALDRAPP Geronticus eremita.

The alternative common name Waldrapp is German for forest crow, the equivalent of the Latin Corvo sylvatico of Gesner, adapted as Corvus sylvaticus by Linnaeus.

Some of the birds that can be seen in the garden are Humboldt Penguins, Chilean Flamingo, Java Sparrow, Macaws, Waldrapp Ibis and Snow Goose.

The Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) is a migratory bird found in barren, semi-desert or rocky habitats, often close to running water.

The park's main conservation importance is that it holds three of the four Moroccan colonies of the Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita.

BALD IBIS or WALDRAPP Geronticus eremita.

The Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) is a migratory bird found in barren, semi-desert or rocky habitats, often close to running water.