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 ...

A $1 billion bill to restore San Francisco Bay wetlands died in Congress last week, although a local representative vowed to try again next year. The San Francisco Bay Improvement Act would have ...

This past summer the project started a clapper-rail habitat restoration project, she said. Save The Bay has planted half-mile stretches of native species at Palo Alto’s 126-acre Byxbee Park.

By 1970, the California clapper rail’s marshland habitat had been so reduced that the bird was declared an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Clapper rail populations have dropped along the California coast as their salt marsh habitat has disappeared. The cord grass is critical: the birds weave it into floating nests that rise and fall ...

Have you ever walked along the outer edges of a tidal salt marsh and heard a raucous call emanating from within? Did the source of the noise elude you? Many ...

The bird was once abundant in California wetlands but since 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered, the natural habitat is no longer available for clapper rails, SeaWorld explained in a ...

Volunteers in Oakland restoring California clapper rail habitat. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 76°F. Monday, September 9th 2024 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. Close Menu.

The California Clapper Rail has come to depend on invasive Spartina cordgrass Image courtesy of Robert Clark. By Bryan Walsh. May 29, ... climate change and habitat loss, ...