Bostrychia

Bostrychia
	Bostrychia hagedash
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Pelecaniformes
Family:	Threskiornithidae
Subfamily:	Threskiornithinae
Genus:	Bostrychia; G.R. Gray, 1847
Type species
	Geronticus carnuculatus; (Rüppell, 1837)

Bostrychia is a genus of ibises in the family Threskiornithidae. Member species are found in many countries throughout Africa.

It contains the following five species:^[2]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Bostrychia carunculata	Wattled ibis	Ethiopia
Bostrychia hagedash	Hadada ibis	Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Somalia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Bostrychia olivacea	Olive ibis	Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire, Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe Island
Bostrychia bocagei	São Tomé ibis	São Tomé
Bostrychia rara	Spot-breasted ibis	Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda

Conservation[]

Four of these species are evaluated as Least Concern status, but the dwarf olive ibis is Critically Endangered according to the IUCN.

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