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STATUS
Endangered. "Endangered" means that we are afraid a species may become extinct.
DESCRIPTION
The California Clapper Rail is one of the largest rails. It is 32-47 cm from the tip of its bill to the tip of its tail. (13-19 inches) It looks like chicken with a long, slightly downward-curving bill. Its upper parts are olive-brown. Its breast is cinnamon-buff colored.
Clapper rails are secretive. They are hard to see in dense vegetation. (See photo above) Once flushed, they can frequently be approached.
When evading discovery, clapper rails typically freeze, hide in small sloughs or under overhangs. They may run rapidly through vegetation or along slough bottoms.
Clapper rails prefer to walk or run rather than fly or swim. When flushed, they normally fly only a short distance before landing. They can swim well. But they only swim to cross sloughs or escape threats at high tide.
Clapper rails are most active in early morning and late evening. They forage in marsh vegetation in and along creeks and mudflat edges. They often roost at high tide during the day.
FOOD
Mostly things like mussels, crabs and clams.
HABITAT
Salty and brackish water marshes with pickleweed and cordgrass.
RANGE
The marshes of San Francisco estuary. In south San Francisco Bay, there are populations in all of the larger tidal marshes. Distribution in the North Bay is patchy. Small populations are widely distributed in the San Pablo Bay and Suisun Marsh.
MATING
The breeding season begins by February. Nesting starts in mid-March and extends into August. Clutch sizes range from 5 to 14 eggs. Both parents share in incubation and rearing.
PREDATORS
THREATS
The places where the rails can live have become more broken up. This makes it easier for predators like the non-native red fox and feral cats to catch rail
EXPLORE
You may be able to see a CA Clapper Rail if you go to the San Francisco or San Pablo Bay
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