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 $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 ...

If clapper rails were humans, their grandparents wouldn’t like them as youngsters. They directly contradict that old axiom about how well-mannered children should act — being often heard, but seldom ...

This little clapper rail dined leisurely in the tidal pool at First Landing State Park, as though it were all alone. The normally shy rail never noticed or else it never minded that my dog and I were ...

The rehabilitated clapper rail walked out of its carrying cage and looked around at the clearing in the marsh at Pleasure House Point one beautiful spring morning recently. Looks like home, the bird ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - On Tuesday, the 400th light-footed clapper rail was released into the wild right here in San Diego. Team Clapper Rail released seven captive-bred birds at the Kendall-Frost Marsh ...