Though we have not seen them nesting this is not the first limpkin family we find in the reserve since water and apple snails are back. This chicks are very small and at the end of the video four can be counted. To feed them is a very patient task. Limpkins do not just provide them food to the chicks. They must teach them how to extract the snail out of the shell. And that is quite a technique to learn.

Though we have not seen them nesting this is not the first limpkin family we find in the reserve since water and apple snails are back. This chicks are very small and at the end of the video four can be counted. To feed them is a very patient task. Limpkins do not just provide them food to the chicks. They must teach them how to extract the snail out of the shell. And that is quite a technique to learn.

Though we have not seen them nesting this is not the first limpkin family we find in the reserve since water and apple snails are back. This chicks are very small and at the end of the video four can be counted. To feed them is a very patient task. Limpkins do not just provide them food to the chicks. They must teach them how to extract the snail out of the shell. And that is quite a technique to learn.

Though we have not seen them nesting this is not the first limpkin family we find in the reserve since water and apple snails are back. This chicks are very small and at the end of the video four can be counted. To feed them is a very patient task. Limpkins do not just provide them food to the chicks. They must teach them how to extract the snail out of the shell. And that is quite a technique to learn.

Diego saw this individual sitting for two days on a row. It seems to be ok and feeding well.

The juvenile common gallinule looks curiously. Is there anything for me?

With water up to the belly. It normally wades in shallow waters.

The limpkin is ready to eat its favourite dish, the apple snail. Either visually or probing the mud limpkins look for them under the water. During the day snails stay submerged, that is why we do no see them. But we do find their empty shells piled in the "dining-rooms" or the clusters of eggs lying on vertical or bent surfaces, whether stems, walls or even on a bottleneck floating in the water.

Inside the circles rosy racemes of snail apple eggs Pomacea canaliculata, which is the main food of limpkins

6 or 7 individuals were counted