Sentences with phrase «clapper rail»

The King Rail is the freshwater cousin of the saltwater - loving Clapper Rail.

More than 60 species of birds have been identified on the Turneffe Atoll with the following seen commonly: snowy egret, little blue heron, great blue heron, tricolored heron, yellow - crowned night heron, clapper rail, mangrove swallow, brown pelican, magnificent frigatebird, double - crested cormorant, osprey, mangrove warbler, great tailed grackle, golden fronted woodpecker, tropical mockingbird, cinnamon hummingbird, green breasted mango, hooded oriole, white crowned pigeon and royal tern.

The Southern California Bight is home to over 195 species of birds, including endangered species such as the light - footed clapper rail (Rallus longirostris levipes).

On this hike, Clarkson, instructor and director of the Nature Awareness Program at the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement, in nearby Menlo Park, California, is eager to see whether the class can find signs of two of the park's endangered species: the salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

(The group also cited a media report of another Yuma clapper rail death at a similar facility.)

«We can safeguard our irreplaceable wildlife, like the Yuma clapper rail, through thoughtful implementation of renewable energy projects,» Anderson said.

Last week, that long - dead clapper rail stoked a legal action that challenges at least a half dozen additional solar plants planned in California and Arizona.

The attorney cites findings from the federal investigation report, which showed that the Yuma clapper rail had been killed at First Solar's 4,400 - acre Desert Sun Solar Farm in California's Riverside County.

«I strongly believe there's a way to show the birds that the PV panels are solid surfaces, not water,» said Ileene Anderson, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is preparing to sue over Yuma clapper rail mortality at solar power plants.

«We'd like the FWS to start looking at the potential problem that the Yuma clapper rail may be being attracted onto the sites,» Anderson said.

Wetlands are widely valued as natural pollution filters and as habitat for endangered species such as the Yuma clapper rail, whooping crane and least tern.

And it could improve the prospects for two endangered birds native to the area — the Yuma Clapper Rail and the Southwestern Flycatcher.

Secretive marsh birds like clapper rails, king rails and soras — one of which has already been found oiled — frequent brackish and salt marsh habitat.

Clapper rails in particular are highly dependent on the marshes — including fiddler crabs, a dietary staple — and they'll have nowhere to go if the oil arrives.

«We have threatened Henslow's sparrows, clapper rails, osprey, pelicans, bald eagles and yellow rails.

Pairs of clapper rails have been tagged, and their habits and flight patterns are being tracked through a tiny broadcasting collar.