Limpkin

Title

Limpkin

Artist

Norman Johnson

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

On a late September 2016 morning, a limpkin hopped up on a stump in Tampa, Florida's Lettuce Lake Park to bathe in Hillsborough County sunshine. You will find limpkins (aramus guarauna) in warm freshwater marshes and swamps, often with tall reeds, as well as mangroves, in warm part of the Americas fromFlorida in the United States, southern Mexico, the Caribbean. Central American, northwestern Soutn America and South America east of the Andes mountains south to northern Argentina. In the Caribbean it also inhabits dry brushland. Essentially you will find limpkins where you find apple snails.

The limpkin is a rail like bird measuring from 25" to 29" in length with a wingspan between 40" to 42." Most of the bird is a drab, dark brown with an olive luster above Much of the body is marked with white giving it a streaked look. The streaks are more pronounced on the head and long neck. The eyes are reddish and the long legs and large feet are a dark grayish-green. The yellowish, long, heavy, downcurved bill has a darker tip and the bill is slightly open near, but not at, the tip, giving it a tweezers like action in removing apple snails from their shells. They are strong fliers on long, broad, rounded wings with their necks forward and their legs and feet trailing. They have a short tail and long toes that help them walk on floating vegetation when looking for apple snails and help make them good swimmers.

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November 12th, 2016

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