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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Rail (bird)
		The Rails and Crakes are a group of small birds mainly associated with wetlands, although the Corncrake [?] breeds on farmland.
		Traditionally the rails and crakes in the order Rallidae have been grouped with two families of large birds, the cranes and the bustards in the order Gruiformes.
		New research suggests that the ducks and gallinaceous birds are each other's closest relatives and together form the basal lineage of neognathous birds.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ra/Rail_(bird) (245 words)

	Rail, Birds, Rail, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
		The birds' bodies are usually narrow enough to enable them to slip through dense vegetation, such as in the marshes they typically inhabit.
		Rails ordinarily remain on the ground and are difficult to flush, secretive, and sometimes nocturnal in habit.
		Rails on islands have proved vulnerable to human-caused disturbances, and at least 12 species and subspecies have become extinct within the past 300 years.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=78 (354 words)

	Rail Bird at Animal Corner
		The Galapagos Rail Bird is a small rail endemic to the Galapagos Islands.
		The Rail bird's body is usually narrow enough to enable them to slip through dense vegetation, such as in the marshes they typically inhabit.
		Rail birds are usually but not always grey in colour, they are sometimes brown and dull red.
	www.animalcorner.co.uk /galapagos/railbird.html (349 words)

	Rail (bird) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rail (bird), common name applied generally to members of a family of birds.
		Rail Bird Hunting The Boat, the River, and the Bird
		The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island Rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7 g).
	encarta.msn.com /Rail_(bird).html (230 words)

	Wetland Birds -- Virginia Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The presence of Virginia Rails in wetlands is closely tied to the presence of emergent vegetation and rails occur in a variety of emergent vegetation types (Kaufmann 1971; Stewart 1975; Zimmerman 1977; Faanes 1982; Johnson and Dinsmore 1986; Manci and Rusch 1988, 1989; Conway 1995; Faanes and Lingle 1995; Graetz et al.
		Virginia Rail density was positively related to the small areas of open water interspersed within the emergent vegetation zone of wetlands, with the area of wet-meadow vegetation cover, and with percent emergent vegetation cover (Fairbairn and Dinsmore 2001a,b).
		Virginia Rails often disperse from breeding wetlands in late summer (July and August) to either forage in adjacent upland habitat or to gather on large wetlands prior to fall migration (Pospichal 1952, Pospichal and Marshall 1954, Johnson 1984, Johnson and Dinsmore 1985).
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/literatr/wetbird/vira/vira.htm (6729 words)

	New Zealand bird, Moho-pereru, the Banded Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The banded rail is, of course, a shy and secretive bird and is best spotted, they tell me, at dawn and dusk or in heavy rain but still I do not think there are very many around here and wonder what one might do to help and encourage them as they are such beautiful birds.
		Banded rail breed in the South Pacific from Indonesia and the Philippines through Melanesia, Australia and New Zealand to as far east as Niue in western Polynesia.
		Banded rail are found in mangrove forests, salt marshes and rush covered (not raupo) freshwater wetlands in the northern part of the country.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/bandedrail.html (499 words)

	Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bird reportedly jumped from the bridge following an argument with his girlfriend at the Lakeside Inn, a motel at the east end of the bridge that links the Sand Creek Peninsula with downtown.
		Lockwood said Bird apparently did not threaten suicide during the argument and did not tell his girlfriend he planned to jump from the bridge.
		Two unopened bottles of domestic micro-brewed beer flanked the flowers and posts and rails were plastered with stickers bearing the names of snowboarding gear makers and a hard rock band.
	www.cdapress.com /articles/2004/01/04/news/news03.prt (379 words)

	Calayan Rail: New bird discovered in Babuyan Islands
		Her notes and photographs, along with the recordings of the bird’s loud, harsh, rasping calls, later helped determine that the species was not only new to her, but also new to science.
		Eighteen of the 20 living species of the flightless rail are considered threatened, and the majority of the rail species that have become extinct since 1600 were flightless, said a 1998 handbook on rails.
		Expedition members said the birds were seen skulking in the undergrowth or out on open trails, sometimes alone, sometimes in family groups.
	www.lakbaypilipinas.com /flora_and_fauna/calayan-rail.html (880 words)

	New bird species discovered "just in time"
		Eighteen of the 20 living species of flightless rail are considered threatened, and the majority of rail species which have become extinct since 1600 were also flightless.
		Birds were seen skulking in undergrowth or out on open trails, sometimes alone, sometimes in family groups.
		The Okinawa Rail from the Japanese Ryukyu Islands is the most similar rail in appearance, but there are distinct differences in voice and colour.
	www.birdlife.org /news/pr/2004/08/calayan_rail.html (1197 words)

	Endangered Species Bulletin: The Rail Road To Recovery - protection of the Guam rail bird - Brief Article
		The road to recovery for the Guam rail began in December 1989 when we initiated attempts to establish an experimental population of rails on Guam's neighboring snake-free island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
		Before reintroduction of the rail to its native habitat on the island of Guam could begin, the brown tree snake had to be controlled.
		With the successful reproduction of captive-reared rails released into the wild, and the development of efficient, relatively low cost methods to control localized populations of brown tree snakes, the future is looking brighter for the Guam rail.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ASV/is_2000_Jan-April/ai_65068099 (834 words)

	rail - OneLook Dictionary Search
		RAIL, rail, rail, rail : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		RAIL : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include rail: third rail, rail splitter, plate rail, rail fence, split rail, more...
	www.onelook.com /?loc=pub&w=rail (513 words)

	Yak's Corner
		Most rails evolved from flighted ancestors that invaded various islands, where there were few predators to threaten them on the ground.
		IN 1998, 26 birds were reintroduced to a 65-acre forested area after workers trapped and removed as many snakes as they could find.
		Another 70 birds have been released on Roti, 50 miles north of Guam, which is snake-free.
	www.yakscorner.com /stories/guam_rail.htm (365 words)

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		A small captive group is kept on Maui in the hopes of reintroduction in the future, but no captive-reared birds have lasted long in the wild and most of the birds are old and related to one another and so the outlook for this project is bleak.
		It was primarily a bird of the undergrowth and understorey of Ohia forest, where this rare bird of the "honeycreeper" family spent most of its time foraging.
		In 2003 efforts continued to capture the last remaining three birds known at that time and put them in a captive breeding program at San Diego Zoo, however this had not happened by the end of 2003 and a single bird was observed three times during counts during the CBC week in the Hanawi Area.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /AnnotatedListExtinct2.htm (6287 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Yellow Rail
		Yellow Rail breeds across a large swath of southern Canada, stretching from the Maritime Provinces westward to Alberta and the southern part of the Northwest Territories.
		Yellow Rail migrates at night; this fact, combined with the secretive nature of this species, means that little is known about its migratory habits.
		Yellow Rail is listed as a high-priority species in Partners in Flight's Bird Conservation Plan for The Northern Mixed-grass Prairie, an area that includes rail breeding grounds in North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=228 (704 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The bird, named the "Calayan Rail", is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the joint Filipino-British expedition that found it.
		Islanders said the bird was known as "piding" and that they had even caught it for food in the past but they were unaware it was a previously unclassified species, according to Oliveros.
		Christened the Calayan Rail, the bird with its bright and orange-led legs and beak is believed to be only found in the Philippines.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/08/18/d40818011111.htm (480 words)

	Sarkar Lab WebLog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The researchers, the Babuyan Islands expedition team, were surveying the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of the Babuyan group at the northern end of the Philippines archipelago.
		Her notes and photographs, with her recordings of their loud, harsh and rasping calls, helped to establish that the birds were new to science, though not to the island's people, who call them "piding".
		In order to register the rail as a new species the expedition had to kill one bird, and when they dissected it they found its flight muscles were too weak to carry it far, prompting their conclusion that it is "almost" flightless.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/sarkarlab/001820.html (514 words)

	Metroactive Animals \| The Clapper Rail
		When settlers arrived with their muskets, they discovered the bird to which it must have seemed God had taped a sign that said "Eat me." By 1900, the rails were almost gone.
		The clapper rail population is up to about 1,000, and the acquisition of 1,600 more acres of habitat on Bair Island in Redwood City should give it another boost.
		One rail was killed by a feral cat; another became entangled in an old balloon and ribbon and drowned when the tide came in.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.01.97/cover/clapper-rail-9718.html (547 words)

	Articles - Inaccessible Island Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Inaccessible Island Rail, Atlantisia rogersi, is a small bird of the rail family, Rallidae.
		This rail has an average weight of 30 grams and a length of 17 centimeters.
		A clutch of two eggs is laid between October and January; chicks are vulnerable to predation by the Tristan Thrush.
	www.bird-center.net /articles/Atlantisia (241 words)

	The Journal Times Online
		The bird helped coin the phrase, "thin as a rail," because it is thin enough to navigate reeds in the wild, Christie said.
		The Guam rail is threatened in part because of cats in the wild.
		The Racine Zoo's Guam rail could have offspring that could be released to Rota Island as part of the effort.
	www.journaltimes.com /articles/2004/08/13/local/iq_3042047.txt (696 words)

	The Invisible Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The bird was known to exist only in the freshwater marshy areas of the lower Colorado River, a few places in Arizona's Salt River and the Salton Sea in Southern California.
		The Yuma Clapper is a bird that is particularly sensitive to pollutants and water level fluctuations, especially in the spring nesting season.
		The bird would not be happy about 900 homes, gas stations, dogs and cats, and storm water laden with every lawn and golf course fertilizer and herbicide and insecticide known to man being flushed through its habitat.
	www.naturesongs.com /invisible.html (1227 words)

	Backyard Wild Bird Baths
		Clamp on bird bath is made from 2 inch wide steel strip with a color coordinating dish.
		Hanging bird bath with galvanized and fl powder coated chains and hanger.
		This freshwater bird bath is made from hand-spun copper and then powder coated.
	www.backyardwild.com /baths.html (185 words)

	Eagle Chat, Alaska Birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Birding from the other side of the creek, I did manage to locate an adult slaty-backed gull near where the creek starts to split out on the tidal flats - your best bet is to try at low tide.
		The bird flew around the log again and I chased it briefly along the lower trail away from the log where it flew up into the alder thicket that separates the two pathways there.
		The bird was digging through the gravel and muck on the incoming tide, often with it's head below water, sometimes on "drier" ground, and pulling up pieces of vegetation.
	birdingonthe.net /mailinglists/EAGL.html (12282 words)

	Omaha Sunday Bee \| Mystic Bird of the Marsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Our nights and mornings are growing keener and keener, the weeds and grasses are drooping and fast donning their coats of brown, the foliage of the woods is flecking with thin scarlets and golds, and like the rail, all migratory birds are enroute for their southern homes.
		To knock down, however, is not always to boat, for the crippled rail is skillful in hiding himself in the grass or weeds.
		No bird serves better as a practice mark for the beginner, and we incline to the belief that some day when we are more advanced and more generous, this one will be reserved solely for those who are learning to shoot.
	libr.unl.edu:2000 /birds_of_nebraska/DJ.00572.html (746 words)

	* Clapper Rail - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Scientific name: The genus name is a Modern Latin word meaning "rail," in the sense of the bird.
		Discussion This large eastern rail is common in the larger freshwater marshes of the interior...
		While the King Rail is a primarily a bird of fresh water and the Clapper Rail is primarily a bird of salt water,...
	www.bestknows.com /bird/clapper_rail.html (355 words)

	King Rail (Rallus elegans)
		The king rail is a rarely seen marsh bird since Michigan lies on the northern edge of its breeding range.
		The king rail was once abundant in the marshes along the western shore of Lake Erie.
		Its sides are heavily barred-distinguishing this bird from its smaller relative, the Virginia rail.
	www.michigan.gov /dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12202-33008--,00.html (301 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The birds in the east have a grayish brown color almost like the similar King Rail but the Clapper does not have the rusty colored stomach.
		In fact the call is so important to the Rail that parents raising chicks create a bond by clattering together until they sound like one bird.
		The Clapper Rail is an omnivore, which means it eats both meat and vegetation.
	pilgrims.net /plymouth/schools/Science/fieldguides/bayou/taylorh04/information.htm (299 words)

	Sora/Sora Rail - Discover The Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sora rails have a fl patch on the face and throat, a short stubby yellow bill, and greenish legs.
		As the most widely distributed of all rails, the sora is found in breeding grounds, north as far as Nova Scotia and southern Alaska, to summering grounds, south as far as South America.
		The sora, though not in the same genus as most others rails, is in the Rallidae family and is often called a sora rail, although its proper name is sora.
	www.dto.com /hunting/species/generalprofile.jsp?speciesid=252 (522 words)

	Take Our Word For It, page two, Words to the Wise
		The latest discussion has been whether skinny as a rail refers to the rail used to build fences or rail as in "the bird" (e.g.
		The phrase refers to the fence kind of rail, not the bird.
		Thin as a rail (the original form; skinny was substituted later) appears in 1872 in a work of Mark Twain.
	www.takeourword.com /TOW186/page2.html (1013 words)

	CBC News: Scientists identify new bird species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Team member Carmela Espanola spotted unidentified dark brown birds with orange-red bills and legs near a stream on the island in May 2004.
		Researchers used her notes, photographs and recordings of the bird's loud, rasping call to determine that the Calayan Rail is new to science.
		Conservationists estimate there are probably up to 200 pairs of the birds, known locally as "pidings," in the area.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2004/08/17/rail_bird040817.html (326 words)

	Summit Daily News for Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and Frisco Colorado - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The bird was nothing less than spectacular - a wide wingspan, deep brown feathers, formidable claws.
		Rail accepted the gift and, upon retirement in 1995, brought it with him to his home in Summit County.
		Rail acquired an affidavit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Division to keep the mounted bird, but when it came to donating it, he had to hand it over to the public.
	www.summitdaily.com /article/20050803/NEWS/108030043 (564 words)

	WWF \| Global Challenges \| Educating Future Leaders \| Bird Discovery
		WWF played a special role in the discovery of the Calayan rail.
		Ornithologists last surveyed the island where the bird was discovered, Calayan, 100 years ago.
		Established in 1994, EFN is dedicated to Russell E. Train, World Wildlife Fund's founding trustee, past president, and former chairman of the board.
	www.worldwildlife.org /challenges/efn_discovery.cfm (226 words)

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