Aramus guarauna

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 67 meters (220 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.2     Savanna - Moist   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
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Biology

Diet

Almost exclusively snails, with lesser quantities of aquatic invertebrates , reptiles , and amphibians .

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Wetland-open water
• Clutch Size: 3-8
• Number of Broods: 2, possibly 3

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aramus guarauna (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Similar Species

White Ibis, Glossy Ibis

Ibises have thinner more strongly decurved bills and lack white spots on upperparts. Immature Night-Herons have much shorter legs and necks, and shorter, thicker bills.

Members of the genus Aramus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. guarauna (Scolopaceous Courlan) · A. guarauna guarauna (Limpkin) · A. guarauna pictus (Limpkin)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A Directory of Neotropical Wetlands. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 101, p. 102, p. 103, p. 13, p. 145, p. 166, p. 167, p. 178, p. 193, p. 246, p. 250, p. 262, p. 263, p. 276, p. 283, p. 284, p. 287, p. 288, p. 293, p. 298, p. 299, p. 308, p. 310, p. 312, p. 313, p. 316, p. 317, p. 319, p. 321, p. 322, p. 323, p. 324, p. 338, p. 344, p. 345, p. 346, p. 348, p. 377, p. 389, p. 391, p. 392, p. 393, p. 416, p. 418, p. 491, p. 539, p. 542, p. 56, p. 57, p. 58, p. 59, p. 677, p. 71, p. 79, p. 91, p. 93, p. 94.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 188.
• Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 16.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. 50 1911 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 36.
• Bulletin / Chicago Natural History Museum. [Chicago, Ill.]: The Museum, [1944-1966] url p. 5.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1972 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 124, p. 301, p. 313, p. 330, p. 86.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 370, p. 80.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 138.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 116 1957 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 285, p. 311.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 257.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and othe 13 1942 Chicago, 1918- url p. 303, p. 307.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 238.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 370.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 370.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 666, p. 681.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 161, p. 801.
• Directory of Wetlands of International Importance. IUCN url p. 725, p. 759.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 26.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston: The Society, 1869-1941. url , , p. 142, p. 144.
• Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. url p. 257.
• Pesticides monitoring journal. [Washington, D.C.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1967-1981. url p. 90.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 15.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 432.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 246, p. 393, p. 454, p. 555, p. 565, p. 572, p. 575, p. 582, p. 619, p. 670.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1965 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 336, p. 337, p. 338, p. 4, p. 468, p. 472, p. 474, fig. 55, p. 61, p. 9.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 13.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 50.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 106.
• The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. url p. 251.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Aramus guarauna. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Aramus guarauna. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9140
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176199
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2497311
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176197
• IUCN ID: 192343
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNMJ01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178059

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 598.860 based on 4,267 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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