This species occurs in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia. It faces the full gambit of threats, from hunting and disturbance at breeding colonies to drainage and conversion of foraging habitats to agriculture and is consequently qualifies as Near Threatened.
Factsheet: Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus