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Australian white ibis

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Threskiornis molucca, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which is widespread across much of Australia and has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill and black legs.

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Across languages

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23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أبو منجل الأبيض الأسترالي — species of wading bird
  • Breton: ibiz gwenn Aostralia — species of wading bird
  • Burarra: garrarla mu-gungarlcha — species of wading bird
  • Catalan: ibis blanc australià — species of wading bird
  • Chinese Mandarin: 澳洲白䴉 /澳洲白鹮 (Àozhōu báihuán) — species of wading bird
  • Dutch: Australische witte ibis — species of wading bird
  • Esperanto: Aŭstralia blanka ibiso — species of wading bird
  • Finnish: australianpyhäiibis — species of wading bird
  • French: bis à cou noir — species of wading bird
  • German: Molukkenibis — species of wading bird
  • Hungarian: malukui íbisz — species of wading bird
  • Indonesian: bis australia — species of wading bird
  • Japanese: オーストラリア黒朱鷺 (ōsutorariakurotoki) — species of wading bird
  • Japanese: 赤足黒朱鷺 (akaashikurotoki) — species of wading bird
  • Korean: 호주흰따오기 (hojuhuinttaogi) — species of wading bird
  • Lithuanian: Australinis baltasis ibis — species of wading bird
  • Persian: اکراس سفید استرالیا — species of wading bird
  • Polish: ibis czarnopióry — species of wading bird
  • Portuguese: íbis-branco-australiano — species of wading bird
  • Punjabi: اسٹریلی چٹا آئیبیس — species of wading bird
  • Russian: молу́ккский и́бис (molúkkskij íbis) — species of wading bird
  • Swedish: Australisk ibis — species of wading bird
  • Vietnamese: cò quăm trắng Australia — species of wading bird