Andean (or Black Faced) Ibis.

The Ibis world population is about 40 with all of them in Ecuador. We saw 24 in a magnificent private reserve – open only to birders – that surrounds the preserved Humboldt research station. Alexander von Humboldt (famous among science lovers like myself) was German (Prussian?) and worked in the 1800’s in South American….primarily inthe fields of botany, and geology — but also geography.