by terranovabay
A Limpkin forages along the shoreline at Egret Marsh Stormwater Park. The bird even moved along with its characteristic limp, which gives the Limpkin its name.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Egret Marsh Stormwater Park, Limpkin
by terranovabay
Continuing now with Part 2 of Stick Marsh Action in Two Parts. Great Egret against dark storm clouds. Head on view of a Roseate Spoonbill. Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Great Blue Heron walking dangerously close to an Alligator. Anhinga Snowy Egrets Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Great Egret Adult Roseate Spoonbill with a juvenile begging for food. Cattle Egret Great Egret Alligator Great Egret Great Egret Needless to say, the Alligators are attracted to the rookery islands on the off chance […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, Aramus guarauna, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Blue Cypress Conservation Area, Bubulcus ibis, Cattle Egret, Egretta thula, Fellsmere, Fellsmere Grade Road, Great Blue Heron, Limpkin, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, St. Johns River, Stick Marsh
by terranovabay
The Blue Cypress Conservation Area is part of the 52,671-acre Upper St. Johns River Basin Project. Drained for agriculture in the early 1900s, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is trying to reestablish a semblance of extensive wetland habitats that defined the area prior to its disruption. The Conservation Area is home to many species of wildlife, including two islands newly adopted near the Stick Marsh boat launch as rookeries for Roseate Spoonbills and other wading birds. Stick Marsh Action […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, Aramus guarauna, Ardea alba, Blue Cypress Conservation Area, Egretta thula, Fellsmere, Fellsmere Grade Road, Limpkin, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, St. Johns River, Stick Marsh
by terranovabay
More bird photos selected from four days helping the Audubon Advocate students on their first birding experience held at the West Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Red-winged Blackbird [female] (Agelaius phoeniceus) Red-winged Blackbird [male] (Agelaius phoeniceus) River Otter (Lontra canadensis) mom trying to move her pups. She would carry one a distance, leave it, than return for the other, while the pup she had moved previously would follow her back. It must have been very frustrating for her while showing how […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Anhinga, Boat-tailed Grackle, Florida, Glossy Ibis, Indian River County, Limpkin, Red-winged Blackbird, Ring-necked Duck, River Otter, West Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility
by terranovabay
While the story sounds apocryphal, it could be that the Limpkin was so named because of the bird’s unusual gait, which appeared like it was limping. Sadly, this Limpkin seen in wetlands in Lake County, Florida, has a real limp. The victim of some unknown accident in the past, one of this Limpkin’s feet, though long healed, appeared mangled and twisted around, which did not seem to impede the bird from walking. Frequent visitors to this wetland said that the […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Florida, Lake County, Leesburg, Limpkin
by terranovabay
The Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), despite its name, does not really walk with a limp thought its unusual gait seems to be suggestive enough that it became its common name. And its scientific name is not much help. Aramus seems to have an unknown origin and guarauna is a local Brazilian name for the bird though it is fairly common in Florida wetlands. What people who have experienced it remember most about the bird is its scream-like call in the middle […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Aramus guarauna, Brazil, Florida, Limpkin, wetland
