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Aramus guarauna (Limpkin)

Synonyms: Aramus scolopaceus; Plegadis guarauna (homotypic); Scolopax guarauna
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a bird that looks like a large rail but is skeletally closer to cranes. It is the only extant species in the genus Aramus and the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas, from Florida to northern Argentina. It feeds on molluscs, with the diet dominated by apple snails of the genus Pomacea. Its name derives from its seeming limp when it walks.
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Infraspecies

Aramus guarauna dolosus (Limpkin)
Aramus guarauna elucus (Limpkin)
Aramus guarauna guarauna
Aramus guarauna pictus (Limpkin)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
15
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
41
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 29.2353
EDGE Score: 3.40901
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Attributes

Clutch Size [6]  6
Clutches / Year [2]  1
Incubation [5]  27 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground display
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  2.352 lbs (1.067 kg)
Breeding Habitat [3]  Temperate eastern forests, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [3]  Temperate eastern forests, Freshwater marshes
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Vertibrates [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Caiman crocodilus (Common caiman, Spectacled caiman)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amidostomum acutum[8]
Lyperorchis inexpectabilis[8]
Lyperorchis lyperorchis[8]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0