It happened on a rainy morning in an Oakland marsh. The pickleweed parted, and with an unceremonious splash, a mottled, fat waterfowl plopped into the slough. It was a California clapper rail, the $1 ...
A group of endangered birds were released into the Paradise Marsh in National City Thursday. The eight zoologically-bred, light-footed clapper rails were released into the local wetlands by Team ...
A nesting pair of California clapper rails and their two chicks have been confirmed in San Francisco's Heron's Head Park, the first time in decades that the endangered chicken-like bird has been ...
We walked to the beat of clapper rail castanets at Pleasure House Point recently. Red-winged blackbirds provided high notes with their territorial calls. The music was sort of a rapid clack, clack, ...
Listen to a clapper-rail duet, what birds do when they announce their bond and mark their territory, said Charles Gailband of the Chula Vista Nature Center. The light-footed clapper rail is a wading ...