Birds that resemble bitterns

Usage examples of limpkins.

Shad watched the scutellated humpback sink, and then heard the air around him go mad for a moment as limpkins, bitterns, ibises, jorees and ducks took off screaming and flapping.

After a while their roars and grunts and hisses died down, and after a longer while the hurons and limpkins and what-all birds let off their squawking.

Squawk hurons cut loose as though they’d been picked alive, and limpkins began wailing their we-are-lost-children cry.

But mostly the island was alive with birds: nighthawks, ospreys, snowy egrets, spoonbills, limpkins, parrots, blue herons, cormorants, the rare owl.