An ibis is red because it eats various kinds of crustaceans, like shrimp, which have red pigment in them.
Scarlet ibis' turn red as adults because of the red crabs they eat.
because of what it eats
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It represents Doodle.
The symbol of scarlet ibis is Doodle with the Scarlet Ibis. They both died alone, they were out of place, and were both sick. Doodle coughed up blood and his shirt became red and the ibis also was red wtf a symbol is not that a symbolin literature is like a moral or stuff like it a good moral is not to loose hope because he was espected to live much less than what he does
The Ibis eats shrimp and crustaceans which are reddish and the pigments enter the bird's system to produce the reddish color.
The brilliant red color of the scarlet ibis comes from pigments in the bodies of the crustaceans that it eats.
The red crab featured in "The Scarlet Ibis" is called the "land crab," specifically the "Gecarcinus quadratus." This species is often associated with the themes of the story, symbolizing the fragility of life and the inevitability of death, much like the titular ibis. The crab's vibrant red color serves as a poignant reminder of beauty and loss within the narrative.
I'm pretty sure it was the blood
Doodle is bleeding and stains his neck and shirt with blood. He dies red and far from home just like the Ibis.
== == == == Use of the word phrase: "It was in the cloveof seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree." == == The clove is a red flower.The red symbolizes blood and death.
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.