Both the OPs have bright red eyes however, so while not ruling out advanced 1w, it doesn’t seem as likely. A few individuals can have reddish eyes by December. irises are also brown (with a pinkish tinge later but in early first winter still brown albeit lighter/warmer - see link below). Am attaching the photos below and would welcome any comments from birders with experience in Ibis identification.Ĭlick to expand.Afaia - as I indicated above, juvenile irises are brown - imm. I am starting to wonder if my original identification of this bird (as Glossy Ibis) was correct. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the email from the eBird reviewer (and any attempts to get intervention / explanation from eBird have been fruitless). When I subsequently looked on eBird, my observations have been supressed (the photos are marked 'unconfirmed'). From what I can tell from eBird, this would be only the second eBird observation for this species in Quintana Roo province. As requested by the reviewer, I changed my identifications on two checklists to White Faced Ibis. A few weeks later, I received a note from the eBird reviewer indicating that the bird was actually a White-faced Ibis (distinguishing feature that he mentioned was the red eye colour). After looking at the expected species in the area, I entered them into eBird as Glossy Ibis. In mid-November, 2019, on two days at a resort south of Cancun, I took photos of a juvenile ibis.
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