There are recent winter records from Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Virginia. The Limpkin may be one of the few species expanding poleward in both directions. The Limpkin also ranges south into Central and South America.
In Ohio, about 1 in 12 people speak a language other than English at home, ing to the U.S. Census Bureau. But more than half of the students who attend two local elementary schools don't speak English as their first language.
The limpkin inhabits shallows along rivers, streams, lakes, and in marshes, swamps and sloughs in Florida. In the U.S., the Limpkin is found only in Florida and southern Georgia. Limpkins are fairly widespread in peninsular Florida, but rarer in the Panhandle and Keys.
There are recent winter records from Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Virginia. The Limpkin may be one of the few species expanding poleward in both directions. The Limpkin also ranges south into Central and South America.
There are two resident shrike species in North America, and both turn up in Ohio. The loggerhead shrike is a Southerner and once bred throughout much of the state. When settlers cleared the great forests that blanketed Ohio, loggerheads expanded north and did well for a while.
The first Ohio record was from Lake County during 1964, and small numbers sporadically appeared in the Cleveland area during subsequent years. These finches were noted at Marietta during 1972 and rapidly spread across the state during the 1970s (Peterjohn 1989a).