🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Limpkin live?

Aramus guarauna has 570,452 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1857 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Limpkin
Limpkin — Photo: VJAnderson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesGruiformesAramidaeAramus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 343,700
Argentina 45,325
Brazil 39,938
Mexico 20,809
Colombia 20,478
Belize 18,145
Costa Rica 11,819
Ecuador 8,005
Paraguay 7,478
Peru 6,731
Cuba 6,372
Uruguay 6,208
Guatemala 4,723
Panama 4,133
Honduras 4,093
Bolivia 3,945
Guyana 2,961
Dominican Republic 2,771
Venezuela 2,581
Nicaragua 2,249
Trinidad & Tobago 2,078
Puerto Rico 1,818
Bahamas 1,760
El Salvador 1,060
Canada 454
Suriname 379
Jamaica 264
Haiti 84
French Guiana 43
Curaçao 15
Chile 11
Cayman Islands 9
Aruba 5
Guadeloupe 4
France 2
Nigeria 1
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.