The Limpkin is truly a Florida, as it's habitat range in North America is strictly Florida., although he does live in the tropics as well.
The Limpkin is truly a Florida, as it's habitat range
in North America is strictly Florida., although he does live in the tropics as
well.
Limpkin's favorite food is large apple snails.
In Florida, it also eats other kinds of snails and mussels;
sometimes insects, crustaceans, worms, frogs, lizards.
The Limpkin's bill is uniquely adapted to foraging on apple snails.
The
closed bill has a gap just before the tip that makes the bill act like tweezers.
The tip itself is often curved slightly to the right so it can be slipped into the right-handed chamber of the snail.
It stands about 28 inches tall.
It has a wing span of 42 inches.
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Its
loud, strident, eerie call, familiar at night in the Florida marshes,
sounds
like a human in distress, so the Limpkin is known locally as the "Crying Bird."
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