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# Long description

The ibis is a bird about 75 cm long and weighs about 1 kg. It has glossy dark green plumage and feathers on its wings and shoulders are iridescent green with bronze and purple highlights. The head is bare of feathers. The bill is long and narrow and curved downwards and is adapted to pecking and probing the ground for food that includes insects, worms, snails and frogs as well as small reptiles and mammals that have died (usually in fires).