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Limpkin

Aramus guarauna

Photo by JeKScience
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26.6159, -80.057

Field Notes

Description:

It's drab color doesn't match the dark Ibis in Florida (most of them are glossy or multicolored in their non/breeding feathers.) He most looks like a White Ibis adolescent, if the white streaks are where he's lost young feathers and his adult white feathers are coming in. He was REALLY TALL to be an adolescent though (I think, not an expert, yet,) at over a foot, maybe a foot and a half tall.

**Edited to Limpkin. Thank you Florida33girl!

Habitat:

The Lake in Lake Worth's park

Species ID Suggestions

Limpkin

Aramus guarauna

Comments (2)

Edited for accuracy. Thank you Florida33Girl!
This is a Limpkin (Aramus gaurauna), a bird common throughout South and Central America and locally common throughout Florida wherever its food source (mainly Apple Snails) are available. The size and coloring help to distinguish it from the White and Glossy Ibis.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2012

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