#limpkin

[giraffes-golashes]

@todaysbird Limpkin! In Ohio!!! (For anyone who doesn’t know, these guys are Supposed to be in Florida. Ohio is. Not Florida.)

My friend took these pics!!!

[herpsandbirds]

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), mother with chick, family Aramidae, order Gruiformes, Florida, USA

They specialize in eating large aquatic snails, like apple snails.

photograph by Thomas Conroy

[antiqueanimals]

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

Part of a collection of watercolors by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

Internet Archive

[vintagewildlife]

Limpkin By: Allen, Kellogg & Tanner From: Natural History Magazine 1936

[harkthorn]

More ballpoint bird sketches. I don't know how the big crease right across the middle happened

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[sitting-on-me-bum]

Limpkin (Aramus Guarauna), Crooked Tree

©Aurore Shirley

[rafefar]

Birding at Riverbed Park

[birdblues]

Limpkin

[slightestbreeze]

Today's exciting bird sighting:

Limpkin or the crying bird -- seen just down the street in my local estuary 💛 bonus: wisteria

Reference: "The Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called the crying bird used to be synonymous with Wakulla Springs.

One interpretation of the meaning of Apalachee word, Wakulla, is "water of the crying birds." The Limpkin disappeared from Wakulla Springs when its food, the native apple-snail (Pomacea paludosa), vanished. Their distinctive, ethereal cry, which once resonated among the ancient cypress trees, is now silent."

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/home-garden/2018/05/17/learn-limpkin-audubon-banquet/618581002/

[photographybymichiale]

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at"

(A limpkin at Lakes Park in Fort Myers, Florida)

[justdownthecreek]

Honey Island Swamp, near Slidell, LA

[ghschwering]

A frequent visitor that Barbara Martin and I see at Lake Parker and Circle B Bar Reserve is the Limpkin. They forage for Apple Snails. This one was exploring the trunks of the Bald Cypress trees on the shore of Lake Parker. The first time that I saw a Limpkin I thought it was a type of Ibis. But it's beak has less of a curve and it is bigger than an Ibis. According to Cornell Labs, the Limpkin is more closely related to Rails and Cranes.

Photos taken on February 19, 2023

ISO 160, A: f/2.8, S: 1/500 sec, FL: 510 mm

[herpsandbirds]

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) eating a tasty apple snail, family Aramidae, order Gruiformes, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

They specialize in eating large aquatic snails, like apple snails, but also feed on other small aquatic animals.

photograph by pedro lastra

[thedailybirdblog]

Aww, what a cute baby Limpkin!

Image from blog.catandturtle.ne

[vintagewildlife]

Limpkin By: Alfred M. Bailey From: The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences 1958

[ahb-writes]