Birds are one of the most beautiful creations of Nature. Let me list down Top 15 White Birds in The World
1.AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
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The bird is native to North America. The bird is the longest in Northern America and has the second-largest wingspan than any other bird in North America. It breeds in interior North America and moves to coasts and central South America during winters. The bird was described by German naturalist Johan Friedrich in the year 1789. The bird has a large beak which measures 11.3 to 15.2 cm in males and 10.3 to 14.2 cm in females. Their Wingspan measures 240 to 300 cm. Mean body mass was reported to be 7 kg. The bird makes a nest in colonies of several hundred birds in pairs. During their migration, they cross mountains and lakes but they avoid open oceans. These birds live for more than 16 years. They don’t travel or search to kill their prey. Instead while swimming in lakes, they catch their prey.
2. GREAT EGRET
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A completely white plumage bird belongs to the heron and listed as one of the most beautiful white birds in the world. It is also called white Egret, great white Egret, or great white heron. They built nests in colonies and near water bodies. The Great Egret is a widely distributed egret with four subspecies in Asia, Africa, America, and southern Europe. However, in some parts of the southern United States, its number has been declined due to habitat loss, improper grazing, and due to increased salinity in the water. They are generally distributed across the tropical and temperate belts of earth. Males and females are almost identical in physical appearance.
3. SNOWY OWL
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It is a large white owl having yellow eyes and a black beak. It is native to Arctic regions in North America and Eurasia. Both males and females are white with a little difference that females have more flecks of black plumage. Mostly the habit of owl is sleep during the day and hunt during the night but the snowy owl is active during the day especially during summer times. During threatening conditions, they raise an alarm call and quack kriek-krek. They even clap their beaks in response to threats or annoyance. The bird relies primarily on Flemmings and on other small rodents. They feed on some medium-sized mammals like Squirrels, rabbits, dogs, moles, coots, and gulls. It is also known as one of the incredible and amazing Arctic birds in the world.
4.AMERICAN WHITE IBIS
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It is a medium-sized bird with overall white plumage and belongs to the ibis family. They have long legs, black wing tips that are usually visible when the bird is flying. Males are larger than females and they also have longer bills than females. The breeding range includes the Gulf, the Atlantic coast and the coasts of Mexico and Central America. Their diet includes aquatic prey such as small fishes and insects. Crayfish are their favorite of all the food. They gather in huge colonies around water during the breeding season. Humans population has affected the life of white ibis. It is difficult to identify the sexes of white ibis since both males and females have some external appearances.
5.WHITE-TAILED KITE
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The coloration of the white-tailed kite is fully liked and their flight is Falcon like. They have black wingtips and rounded tail. A medium mid-sized kite measures 35 to 43 cm in length and weighs 250-330 grams. This small raptor bird is found in the regions of North America and South America. They generally feed on rodents and they are good at patrolling on grasslands. They have been observed in combat due to aerial boundaries. Their Wingspan is 29.2 to 32.8 cm and their tail is 15.1 to 18.6 cm tall. Apart from the breeding season, they live in a group of hundreds.
6. FORSTER’S TERN
The White Bird In North America |
A tern belonging to the family Laridae. It is a small tern with a slender body. It breeds inland in North America and during winters it migrates to the Caribbean and northern Central America. It makes a nest on the ground scrape and lays two or more eggs at a time. Males guard the nest during the day and females during the night. The birds breed in colonies on grasslands having members up to 1000 in a colony. This small tern is 33-36 cm long with a 64-70 cm long wingspan. The bird had pale gray upperparts and white underparts that makes him one of the most beautiful white birds in the world. The leg is red colored and its bill is red tipped with black. They are marsh-dwelling species and they can be easily found in freshwater. Sometimes the forester terns share nesting sites with a yellow-headed blackbird.
7.SNOWY PLOVER
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It is a small wader in the plover bird family. It breeds in the regions of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and the western parts of the United States. Their color is mixed between grey and white. Their eye mask is almost absent. Physically they are short-legged and males lack a lotus cap. They breed on sandy coasts and brackish inland lakes. They make nests on a ground scrape and lay three to five eggs.
8.IVORY GULL
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It is a small gull, the only species from the genus Pagophila. The Ivory Gull has no sub-species and no fossil fuel members of this genus are known. Its shape is much more similar to pigeon than the Larus gulls. They have a harsh flight cry call. The young ivory gulls have a dusky face and they have more black flecking in the wings and tails than adults. Their estimated population in 2012 was 19,000 to 27,000. The majority of these were considered to be from coastal lines of Russian. These species are rapidly declining in Canada because of illegal hunting. They take fish, rodents, eggs, and small chicks as their diet. It is one of the most beautiful white birds in the world.
9.WHOOPING CRANE
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It is the tallest North American Bird named for its whooping sound. It is one of the two crane species found in North America. A whooping crane is a white-colored bird with a long dark pointed bill and a red-colored crown. Their calls are loud and can be listened at a distance of 1 kilometer. Their calls are called as “guard calls” because they use it to warn their partner about danger and threats. They forage while walking in shallow water. Six studies from 1946 to 2005 have reported that blue crabs are the significant food source of these cranes.
10.SANDERLING
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Sanderling is tiny pale greywater. It can be seen darting along seashores. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder and is a long-distance migrant. They are complete migrants and travel 3000 km to 10000 km. The bird’s size is similar to the size of the dunlin. They love to run along sandy beaches and prefer the characteristic “bicycling” action of its leg. It stops frequently while running to pick small food items. They eat small crabs and invertebrates. They are 18-20 cm in length and weigh 40 to 100 grams. They are territorial during breeding times and males guard their territory.
11.AUSTRALIAN WHITE IBIS
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The Australian white ibis is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia. It has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill, and black legs. Its sister species is the African sacred ibis. The Australian white ibis is a fairly large ibis species, around 65–75 cm (26–30 in) long and has a bald black head and neck and a long black downcurved beak, measuring over 16.7 cm (6.6 in) in the male, and under in the female. There is some sexual dimorphism in size, as the slightly heavier male weighs 1.7–2.5 kg (3.7–5.5 lb) compared to the 1.4–1.9 kg (3.1–4.2 lb) female. The Australian white ibis reaches sexual maturity in three years and can reach twenty-eight years of age.
12.COLLARED PLOVER
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The collared plover is a small shorebird in the plover family, Charadriidae. It lives along coasts and riverbanks of the tropical to temperate Americas, from central Mexico south to Chile and Argentina. This small plover is 18 centimeters (7.1 in) long and weighs 35 grams (1.2 oz). Its upperparts are brown and the underparts white in all plumages. Adults have a black breast band. The male has a white forehead, bordered above by a black frontal bar, and below by a black stripe from the bill to the eye. The mid-crown and nape are chestnuts and the legs are yellow. In-flight, the flight feathers are dark with a white wing bar, and the tail shows white sides. The female collared plover is usually very similar to the male, but some individuals can be sexed by a brown tinge to the black areas. Immature birds lack any black on the head, and the breast band is replaced by brown patches on each side of the chest. The flight call is a sharp metallic pip.
13.KITTIWAKE
Kittiwake White Bird |
The kittiwakes are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake, and the red-legged kittiwake. The epithets "black-legged" and "red-legged" are used to distinguish the two species in North America, but in Europe, where Rissa brevirostris is not found, the black-legged kittiwake is often known simply as kittiwake, or more colloquially in some areas as tickles or tickleace. The genus name Rissa is from the Icelandic name Rita for the black-legged kittiwake. The two species are physically very similar. They have a white head and body, grey back, grey wings tipped solid black, and a yellow bill. Black-legged kittiwake adults are somewhat larger (roughly 40 cm (16 in) in length with a wingspan of 90–100 cm (35–39 in)) than red-legged kittiwakes (35–40 cm (14–16 in) in length with a wingspan around 84–90 cm (33–35 in).
14.LARUS
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Larus is a large genus of gulls with worldwide distribution (by far the greatest species diversity is in the Northern Hemisphere). Many of its species are abundant and well-known birds in their ranges. Until about 2005–2007, most gulls were placed in this genus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of the genera Ichthyaetus, Chroicocephalus, Leucophaeus, and Hydrocoloeus for several species traditionally included in Larus. They are in general medium to large birds, typically grey or white, often with black markings on their heads or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet.
15.SHEATH BILL
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The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae. Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family contains one genus, Chionis, with only two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the Antarctic region. They are also the only Antarctic birds without webbed feet. Sheathbills habitually walk on the ground, somewhat like rails. They fly only when alarmed or in migration, looking like pigeons. The sheathbills are scavengers and opportunistic feeders, consuming invertebrates, feces, and carrion—including seal afterbirths and stillborn seal pups—between the sidelines. They also take many chicks and eggs from penguins and cormorants. They lay 2 or 3 blotchy white eggs in crevices or rock cavities. The nests are lined messily with seaweed, stones, feathers, guano, bones, and occasionally plastic trash; even dead chicks may not be removed. Incubation lasts 28 to 32 days, and the young fledge 50 to 60 days later.
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