Birds

Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

February 25, 2013 by Corey 10 Comments
Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi by Brian Gratwicke The Inaccessible Island Rail is perhaps the coolest bird that neither I nor anyone I will...
Birding

A Buff-banded Rail in our garden!

December 9, 2012 by Clare M 6 Comments
Tuesday morning started off like every Tuesday. We were awake just after 5:30am as it is light and we had coffee and got ready...
Birds

Weka, New Zealand’s Nimble-beaked Thieves

August 29, 2012 by Duncan 4 Comments
Once upon a time the average bird on Earth was a rail. Before humans spread across the oceans of the world, wiping out huge...
Birds

Do Common Gallinules Get Jealous of Purple Gallinules?

February 24, 2012 by Corey 15 Comments
I imagine so. What do you think?  And if anyone wants to provide a caption for the picture below please have at it in...
Trips

Fail Rail

February 6, 2012 by Corey 15 Comments
On 26 January 2012, my first full day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had a mission for the...
News

Endangered California Clapper Rail Found Breeding in San Francisco

August 19, 2011 by Corey 1 Comment
The endangered subspecies of the Clapper Rail known as the California Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) has been found breeding in San Francisco’s Heron’s Head...
Birds

History repeating itself

June 8, 2011 by Duncan 3 Comments
If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles”, studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific...
Birds

A Standing Ovation for a Clapper Rail

May 19, 2011 by Corey 12 Comments
Everyone knows what a jinx bird is.  It is a bird that dodges you like sanity does Michele Bachmann.  No matter how hard you...
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