The American White Ibis is a medium-sized bird with white plumage and black wing tips that are usually visible only in flight. It has a deep pink face and a deep pink down-curved bill with a blackish tip. Its long legs are deep pink as well.
During breeding season, the White Ibis pairs up and breeds in huge colonies, often with other waterbird species. The molted bird in the picture is a young White Ibis with some of its brown feathers being replaced by white ones.
The White Ibis eats crustaceans, aquatic insects and small fishes.
It walks slowly in shallow water, sweeping its bill from side to side, and probing at the bottom with its eyes closed. (Its eye lids are white.)
This one decided to look for insects on a paved walkway.
All of these kinds of tropical birds I saw in Florida know the time of their migration for their survival, but yet the Bible says God's people do not even know His requirements or laws.
"Even the stork in the sky knows its season,
and the dove, the swallow, and the crane
observe the time for migration.
But my people don't know the requirements of the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:7 (NIV)
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