Juvenile Northern Bald Ibis in a characteristic sleep and rest position with the head on the back, the bill between the wings and one eye very close to the GPS device (Picture Copyright: Waldrappteam, LIFE Northern Bald Ibis)

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Juvenile Northern Bald Ibis in a characteristic sleep and rest position with the head on the back, the bill between the wings and one eye very close to the GPS device (Picture Copyright: Waldrappteam, LIFE Northern Bald Ibis)

2020, 11(1): 38.

Biologging is suspect to cause corneal opacity in two populations of wild living Northern Bald Ibises (Geronticus eremita) .

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Intensity of the one-eye opacity symptomatology at discovery in five categories, depending on the degree of opacity of the cornea, from small-scale opacity, where the iris and pupil are entirely sharp recognizable (state 1, left) to a complete clouding of the cornea, where the iris and pupil are no longer clearly visible (state 5, right) (Picture Copyright: Waldrappteam, LIFE Northern Bald Ibis)
Juvenile Northern Bald Ibis in a characteristic sleep and rest position with the head on the back, the bill between the wings and one eye very close to the GPS device (Picture Copyright: Waldrappteam, LIFE Northern Bald Ibis)
Northern Bald Ibis of the Spanish reintroduction project, Projecto Eremita, with the same UCO as in the migratory population of the Waldrappteam. (Picture Copyright: Miguel Quevedo, Zoobotánico, Jerez)