Plegadis falcinellus se asigna a la familia Threskiornithidae del orden Ciconiiformes.

Nombres dados en Cuba a Plegadis falcinellus:

Coco Prieto

Garrido y Kirkconnell. 2000.

Residente e inverna en Cuba, no es común.

American Ornithologists' Union. 1998.

Anida en Cuba. Inverna en las Antillas Mayores.

Raffaele, et al.. 1998.

En Cuba todo el año, no es común.

Bond, James. 1971.

En su distribución se incluye Cuba.

Barbour, Thomas. 1943.

Similar a sus comentarios de 1923, excepto que al final admite haber estado equivocado acerca de esta ave en el estado de la Florida, donde dice que habitan varios miles de ellos. También menciona que Bond ha encontrado esta ave en las marismas de la costa sur de la provincia de Pinar del Río, Cuba.

Franganillo Balboa. 1941.

“COCO PRIETO. Plegadis autumnalis (Figura 153). - Vive en los cayos y en las ciénagas saladas.

“Predomina en su cuerpo el color negro, aunque la garganta y los hombros sean blancos.

“Ostenta un pico muy largo y encorvado hacia el suelo. Como la especie anterior.” (Se refiere al Coco Blanco.)

“Longitud de la especie, 500 milímetros.”

Barbour, Thomas. 1923.

Nombre en inglés: “Glossy Ibis”. Nombre en Cuba: “Coco Prieto”.

“For several years I made annual trips to a plantation called San Francisco, near Sarabanda, Gundlach's old headquarters for exploring the Zapata Swamp. The proprietor, don Francisco Morales, offered me most courteous hospitality, and daily his horses carried me down along the course of the Rio Hanabana to where this river flowed out into the great Swamp. The morass itself is bordered by a wide area of open country with scattered clumps of palms and hardwood 'cayos,' the word here being equivalent to the Floridian hammock. This border zone slopes gently toward the Swamp and is wider or narrower as the rains cause the whole Cienaga to rise or lower. The inner marshes of the Cienaga in general consist of an enormous deposit of silt, held partially in suspension and only after uncomfortable hiding and interminable waiting that a few specimens were secured. Usually the bands would jump into the air as one bird, and wheel about, when their line of progress in feeding brought them dangerously near a clump of trees.

“I believe this is the only band, or at least part of the only colony, in Cuba. Gundlach only once saw a flock, also in the Cienaga, and saw a young bird in a lake near Cardenas and once got one from the Havana market. It has been recorded also only once from the Province of Oriente (Ramsden, Auk, vol. 30, p. 368, 1913.)

“I have not been to San Francisco de Morales since 1915, and that year clearing the forest about the edge of the open country had begun (see Plate III). This forest, then the home of bands of Parrots and one of the last resorts of the rarer Ground Pigeons, is probably now wholly felled. The Plegades, however, probably nest in some small 'cayo' far out in the Cienaga, out of sight of land, so to speak; and until the Swamp is drained they probably are safe from extermination. In fact their band probably will survive longer than the tiny remnant of the birds which formerly were seen in Florida. When I was a boy, bands of Glossy Ibis passed daily up and down over Lake Washington and along the upper St. John's River. Today the bird has wholly disappeared from this entire territory.”

Por favor visite la bibliografía general si necesita más datos en las fuentes usadas.

En las Aves de El Zoológico Electrónico:

La Ibis Castaña (Plegadis falcinellus) en el orden Ciconiiformes

El Coco Prieto (Plegadis falcinellus) en la Web:

El Coco Blanco (Eudocimus albus) en esta sección de las Aves de Cuba.

El Coco Rojo (Eudocimus ruber) en esta sección de las Aves de Cuba.

La Seviya (Platalea ajaja) en esta sección de las Aves de Cuba.