Limpkin
Aramus guarauna
Also known as: courlan · crying bird · Scolopaceous Courlan
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-12 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Cathemeral
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Freshwater wetland
- Range
- Americas
- Movement
- Walking
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
A large brown wading bird of Florida marshes and wetlands, streaked with white and prized among birders for its wild, piercing wail heard mostly at dusk and through the night. It feeds almost exclusively on apple snails, using its slightly downcurved, gap-tipped bill to pry the shells open without breaking them.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Aramidae
- Genus
- Aramus
- Species
- Aramus guarauna