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, ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WSET) -- The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke reported that their center has rescued a bird which they believe was blown into the area by Hurricane Laura. The bird, a ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Mother Nature can be cruel. Tropical Storm Cristobal brought about a thousand birds known as clapper rails onto the Harrison County beaches. They are a long way from home. “We ...

During a recent stay at Pawleys Island in South Carolina, I enjoyed birding along the Grand Strand. During my stay, I enjoyed observations of such coastal specialties as wood stork, white ibis, little ...

Rails are chickenlike, thin-bodied — think "thin as a rail" — birds that live in coastal marshes and rice fields. All six North American rails show up in spring along the upper Texas coast, and some ...