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Sounds
Vocalizations
Begging call of hatchlings, which varies among individuals, is high trill (De Santo et al. 1990). Flight call for both sexes and advertising call of male is a coarse hunk-hunk-hunk . Females give squeal during courtship, but vocalizations do not persist. Soft, high-pitched notes uttered at roost. Birds in foraging flocks give soft honk noises.Heath, Julie A., Peter Frederick, James A. Kushlan and Keith L. Bildstein. 2009. White Ibis (Eudocimus albus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/009
