The oldest recorded Snail Kite was at least 14 years, 8 months old and lived in Florida.On average, over the decades, about 40% of nests produce fledglings in Florida. The Snail Kite is a bird that relies on wetlands to forage for their main prey item: snails. In drought years, such as 1974, as few as 17% of nests have been successful, whereas almost 90% have been successful in years with optimal conditions, meaning stable water levels conducive to apple snails. Biologists in Florida have studied Snail Kite nest success very carefully since 1968.the a wide ducks or is maintain suitabe habitats top mi. Kites usually fly over open water and drop down to catch snails up to 6 inches deep in the water. diverse breeding bird in New Jer- the New sev of the breading tNighing and it healthy of awets ibiEes. Limpkins can hunt snails in dense reedbeds and other thick vegetation, wading in on their long legs and using their long bills to move floating vegetation to look for snails. These very different bird species coexist peacefully for the most part, largely segregated by their methods of hunting. These tall, long-legged wading birds have yellow dagger-like bills that they use to strike prey, usually fish or aquatic invertebrates. Both the Limpkin (a large wading bird related to rails) and the Snail Kite (a raptor) evolved to feed almost entirely on freshwater apple snails (genus Pomacea).Its relative, the slender-billed kite, is now again placed in Helicolestes, making the genus Rostrhamus monotypic. Snail Kite was unknown to science until 1817, when French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot described a specimen taken from near the Rio de la Plata, Argentina. The snail kite ( Rostrhamus sociabilis) is a bird of prey within the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures.
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