Differential snail-size predation by snail kites and limpkins. Oikos, vol.

Limpkin won the Robert Capa Gold Medal from Life magazine in 1972 for reporting on the fighting in Northern Ireland.

Only a week before, I had seen and photographed another limpkin, but that one was out in the wilderness, picking up freshwater clams from a streambed.

Habitat structure effects on size selection of snail kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis) and limpkins (Aramus guarauna) when feeding on apple snails (Pomacea spp.).

Little blue herons, white ibis, tricolor herons, great egrets, and limpkins are becoming more plentiful.

Mark Robbins, an ornithologist at the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, calls it "a key step in creating a Florida Everglades-like scenario of destruction in the Pantanal, and an American Great Plains-like scenario in the Cerrado in southern Brazil." The Paraguay-Parana feeds the Pantanal wetlands, one of the most diverse habitats on the planet, with its populations of woodstorks, snailkites, limpkins, jabirus, and more than 650 other species of birds, as well as more than 400 species of fish and hundreds of other less-studied plants, mussels, and marshland organisms.

Their closet relatives are the rails, limpkins, bustards, and trumpeters, all of which are placed in the order Gruiformes.

Bird lovers also are treated to sights of storks, herons, kingfishers, isises, and limpkins. Visitors see dozens of mammals and reptiles, including marsh deer, black howler monkeys, jaguar, alligators, anteaters, the crab-eating fox, iguana, the guinea pig-like capybara, and yellow anaconda snakes that can measure up to 33 feet long.

Herons, cranes and limpkins strut through its shallows, feeding in the muck.

Among the wildlife that will benefit are numerous bird species, including limpkins and gal-linules, as well as alligators, fish and invertebrates that depend on clean water, and a downriver population of manatees.

White-tailed ptarmigans provide that service at Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain; Colima warblers and lucifer hummingbirds at Big Bend; wood storks, limpkins, short-tailed hawks, and white-crowned pigeons at Everglades; and bridled quail-dove at Virgin Islands.

Watch for hawks, bald eagles, ospreys, great blue herons, American egrets, snowy egrets, turkeys, black vultures, tricolored herons, little blue herons, limpkins and white ibis.