Mmm... Apple Snail!
A limpkin's escargot.

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Added to "Birds Album" on Flickr, @ https://flic.kr/s/aHsmgd9Zde

Curtain Call at Dusk (Gators & Birds)

https://youtu.be/gRUIIVSb0es

I finally got a chance to see & post this:
A who's who of favorite birds.

Dense packed 76 seconds - with sights & sounds of nature

Can you name the birds here? They're listed in the description, too, in order of appearance. +/-

Black-necked stilts, a roseate spoonbill, limpkin, snowy egret & tri-colored heron is what I recall...

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If you like birds, watch this short video.
It takes the Limpkin a bit of time to settle down after carefully moving sticks, dead plants, and her eggs around the nest. She doesn't get it right immediately, but it eventually works out :) 🪶

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Limpkin and Ducks (and a roseate spoonbill, oh my)

https://youtu.be/OVZxx1UZX6s

Sorry about the wind noise - but better than people and their noisy vehicles, drones, etc.

Still sifting through recent photos & videos, more to come...

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A Limpkin showed up in an adjacent county last week. Since we had not seen one since 1998(!), we decided to chase it yesterday.

It turned out to be quite cooperative. Here are a few pictures my wife took.

[The actual site is Buckhorn Reservoir in Wilson County, NC.]

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Along the shore of Lake Knowles, an adult Limpkin (aramus guarauna) teaches this juvenile the delicacy of water snails (a limpkin’s main diet).

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A "new" video (Spring Cleaning time!) ... more Limpkins.

"Limpkins at Dusk" - Pt.2

https://youtu.be/Lhf6vIpDY8c

More bird photography @ fenichel.com/birds - and on Flickr

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Another bad photo of a rare bird, this time a limpkin.

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Limpkin Couple

It was a bittersweet return to Myakka River State Park after its double-destruction, first the Weir, and then Hurricane Ian…

But it is spring, nature is eternal & resilient, and nesting season is here.

I saw none of the usual spoonbills & glossy ibises, and few herons, though gators were abundant, along with anhingas & limpkins.

More limpkin-ology (images/text):
http://www.fenichel.com/birds/limpkin.shtml

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