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.
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."
