Threskiornithidae

Chinese: The ibises are known in Chinese as 鹮 huán, also read xuán. Due to their resemblance to the herons, several of the ibises have names related to those birds. The Japanese crested ibis is also called the 朱鹭 zhū-lù ('vermilion heron') and the spoonbills are known as 琵鹭 pí-lù 'spatula herons'.

Japanese: The Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) is known as the トキ toki. The name can be written a number of ways in Chinese characters, including: 朱鷺 ('vermilion heron', from Chinese), 桃花鳥 ('plum flower bird', probably from Chinese) , 鴇 (meaning 'bustard' in Chinese), 鵇 (believed to have been a kind of quail in Chinese), and 鴾 (a character claimed to have been created by the Japanese themselves).

The spoonbills are known as hera-sagi 'spatula herons', written 篦鷺.

Vietnamese: The ibises are known as Cò quăm or Quắm in Vietnamese. The word for 'spoonbill' is Cò thìa 'spoon co'. The word Cò is a name used for herons and similar birds.

The distribution of the Threskiornithidae in East Asia can be found at Tzung-Su Ding's Distribution of Ciconiides in East Asia.

1. The highly endangered Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) is a symbol and rallying cry for the environmental movement in Japan and for Sino-Japanese cooperation. It is known as the toki in Japan, for which there is no exact single-word equivalent in Chinese, leading the Japanese to resort to a range of ways of writing the name in Chinese characters.

2. Pseudibis davisoni: Cheng and Vo & Nguyen treat this as Pseudibis papillosa davisoni, a subspecies of P. papillosa (Black ibis). It is now treated as a separate species, P. davisoni (White-shouldered Ibis), which is followed by M&P and Nguyen, Le & Phillipps.