Submitted by Andrea Cordell on Tue, 08/05/2014 - 06:18
A bird that scientists found in the Bay Area and thought it to be the rare California clapper rail later found that it is not clapper rail; instead it is a subspecies of something else.
The California clapper rail, which only exists in marshes around San Francisco Bay, is a noisy, rare bird that looks a lot like a small chicken.
James Maley, a collections manager at Occidental College's Moore Lab of Zoology, said the California rail had been baffling and confusing scientists since they it was first described, nearly one and a half century ago.
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