The white ibis is a wading bird that tends to browse and travel in flocks.
It is one of the more common wading birds you’ll see in Florida and has no qualms about stealing your food if you leave it unattended at a picnic table.
Called curlew by older native Floridians, it is not actually in the curlew family.
Ibis is not a curlew
Ibis was known in Florida as curlew in the past. We’ve had natives born in the 1910s and 1930s tell us that. It is not, species-wise, a curlew at all. But you’ll find places named “Curlew” in Florida, including street names and buildings, and that’s why.