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- noun Plural form of
limpkin .
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Before the water level in much of the Everglades was lowered by drainage, the area was home to large numbers of herons, egrets, limpkins, mottled ducks, Florida Everglade kites (snail kites), and other birds.
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Seriemas were without close relatives and were the most basal group within Neoaves (the neognath clade that excludes waterfowl and gamebirds), bustards [see adjacent image] were on their own and near the middle of the neoavian radiation, trumpeters, cranes and limpkins grouped with hoatzins in a clade that also included flamingos, tubenosed seabirds, divers and penguins, and rails and finfoots were members of a ‘higher landbird’ clade.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Seriemas were without close relatives and were the most basal group within Neoaves (the neognath clade that excludes waterfowl and gamebirds), bustards [see adjacent image] were on their own and near the middle of the neoavian radiation, trumpeters, cranes and limpkins grouped with hoatzins in a clade that also included flamingos, tubenosed seabirds, divers and penguins, and rails and finfoots were members of a ‘higher landbird’ clade.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The river swamps along the Peace River and its tributaries are home to rare Florida birds, such as the short-tailed hawk and other uncommon species, such as limpkins.
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The river swamps along the Peace River and its tributaries are home to rare Florida birds, such as the short-tailed hawk and other uncommon species, such as limpkins.
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Coots are members of the order Gruiformes containing cranes, rails, and limpkins.
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Stevenson surprised many in revealing that cranes have more in common with rails, coots and limpkins than with herons.
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Stevenson surprised many in revealing that cranes have more in common with rails, coots and limpkins than with herons.
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Stevenson surprised many in revealing that cranes have more in common with rails, coots and limpkins than with herons.
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