Limpkin - Rob Harbin
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Date

Location

Wapanocca NWR
Crittenden, Arkansas, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 35.3422, -90.2252
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Brown wader with lighter colored neck/head and whitish colored spots. Long, decurved bill. Seen on a log in a swampy section just off the road (https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.368402,+-90.236960/@35.367221,-90.2362736,16z/data=!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d35.3684021!4d-90.2369602). Very cooperative for pics (Finally posted 17MAY). ADDENDUM: This is my second limpkin sighting in a month. On 12APR23, I had a totally random and bizarre sighting near downtown Collierville-TN in Shelby County (https://ebird.org/checklist/S133502614). Additionally, another Shelby County limpkin was sighted and photographed on 16APR23, off of W. Island Forty Rd in Shelby Forest (Literally just across the River from Wapanocca; only a few miles). Could this be the same bird? Who knows.

Technical information

Model
NIKON D3300
ISO
400
Focal length
300 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/5.6
Shutter speed
1/1000 sec
Dimensions
2920 pixels x 1914 pixels
Original file size
1.51 MB