| Its curved bill bits perfectly into a snail shell, allowing the limpkin to deftly extract the mollusk. |
| They can run rapidly, having a peculiar mincing gait, that is said to have given them the name of limpkin. |
| It will sometimes take other food, but the limpkin is a highly specialized feeder. |
| The limpkin is about 23-28 inches in length with a wingspan of about 42 inches. |
| The bill is generally long and slender, particularly so in cranes, many rails, and the limpkin, although the seriemas have hooked bills which are doubtless used in tearing up mammalian prey. |
| Cranes and the adult male limpkin have an extremely long trachea, or windpipe, that is coiled in several convolutions. |
