Scientists find new species of rail bird in California - via The Anomalist

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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When eradicating invasive species threatens endangered species recovery

Date:

May 29, 2014

Source:

University of California - Davis

Summary:

Efforts to eradicate invasive species increasingly occur side by side with programs focused on recovery of endangered ones. But what should resource managers do when the eradication of an invasive species threatens an endangered species? In a new study, scientists examine that conundrum now taking place in the San Francisco Bay.

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