Related to cranes and rails, the Limpkin is active mainly at night. For food, it depends chiefly on apple snails (Pomacea) but also takes frogs, tadpoles, and aquatic insects. 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."

description 25-28" (64-71 cm). A long-legged, long-necked, goose-sized marsh bird. Grayish brown with white spots and streaks; long, slender, down-curved bill. In flight, wings have rapid upstroke and slower downstroke.

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