The Limpkin — The Bird That Sounds Like a Banshee, Eats Only Apple Snails, and Is Surging Because of an Invasion

Twenty years ago you had to drive deep into central Florida marsh to hear one. Now there's a pair on the 14th-hole pond and they scream like a murder victim at 4 AM. Meet the limpkin — the bird whose population exploded because an invasive snail rolled into town.