Black Rail miscellany


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Posted by joel wilcox on 05:18:34 09/01/10

During last Saturday's trip I was talking to Bonnie about a NWR in North Carolina where, on the bird list, Black Rails are common; also a book about photographing them and other rails, including yellow.

The place is Cedar Island NWR:
http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=42531

Here is the bird list:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/chekbird/r4/cedar.htm

The book is Shadowbirds by William Burt. It's a great story, following a 19th-C. ornithologist's journal, with photos including a black rail on the nest. (Sorry Bonnie, no nesting yellow rail, as I said.)

As for the trip, thanks again to Paul and the other experts, it was really enjoyable and instructive; I had lifers for Barn Owl, Gull-Billed Tern and Wison's Phalarope.





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