The red ibis can have a different diet depending on where it lives. When in the wild, it eats insects, fish, seeds and fruits. If in the zoo, it's diet consists of crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and some vegetable matter.
Scarlet ibis' turn red as adults because of the red crabs they eat.
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Scarlet ibis turn pink because of the food they eat, which contains pigments called carotenoids. These carotenoids are broken down in their bodies and the resulting chemicals give the feathers their pink color.
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Because of a chemical in the shrimps and crabs they eat
they eat small animals and frogs and fish
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An ibis's red coloration is due to a pigment in their diet called astaxanthin, which is found in foods like shrimp and algae. This pigment gets deposited in their feathers, giving them their distinctive red color. It is believed that this coloration may also serve as a form of camouflage in their wetland habitats.
The Glossy Ibis eats small water and mud living invertebrates such as snails, worms and shrimps. Occasionally it will eat small Amphibians like newts and frogs but this is rare.