 During the summer , the American white ibis roams along the coast of tidal flats and mangrove swamps as the inland marshes are usually flooded . However , as the water level recedes in the fall , populations at the coast shift their foraging area inland , to inland marshes and swamplands . It has become more common in urban landscapes in Florida since the late 1990s , and is one of a number of wetland @-@ dependent bird species which forages in man @-@ made ponds on golf courses in the southwest of the state . 
