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Bostrychia
Bostrychia is a genus name shared by two organisms: Bostrychia Montagne, 1842, a red alga in Rhodomelaceae, and Bostrychia Gray, 1847, an African ibis genus in Threskiornithidae with five species; the names are parahomonyms.
Egretta garzetta
Egretta garzetta, the Little Egret or Lesser Egret, is a small white heron (Ardeidae) of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with black bill, yellow feet, foot-stirring foraging, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Eudocimus
Eudocimus is a genus of ibises with two living species, the American white ibis and the scarlet ibis, native to warm regions of the New World.
Nycticorax
Nycticorax (night herons), genus of Ardeidae herons erected by Forster 1817; type species black-crowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax, worldwide except Australia, IUCN Least Concern, 440,000-1,990,000 mature individuals.
Plegadis falcinellus
Plegadis falcinellus, the glossy ibis (Morito Común, Ibis falcinelle), is a cosmopolitan Threskiornithidae wading bird with iridescent dark plumage and a down-curved bill, Least Concern globally and expanding in range across Europe and North America.
Threskiornis
Threskiornis is a genus of six large wading ibis species across Africa, Asia, and Australia, established by George Robert Gray in 1842; the sacred ibis was venerated in ancient Egypt.