It happened on a rainy morning in an Oakland marsh. The pickleweed parted, and with an unceremonious splash, a mottled, fat waterfowl plopped into the slough. It was a California clapper rail, the $1 ...

A group of endangered birds were released into the Paradise Marsh in National City Thursday. The eight zoologically-bred, light-footed clapper rails were released into the local wetlands by Team ...

An endangered bird that lives in the Bay Area is not what scientists thought it was. The California clapper rail is a noisy, rare bird that looks a little like a small chicken and only lives in ...

A nesting pair of California clapper rails and their two chicks have been confirmed in San Francisco's Heron's Head Park, the first time in decades that the endangered chicken-like bird has been ...

The rehabilitated clapper rail walked out of its carrying cage and looked around at the clearing in the marsh at Pleasure House Point one beautiful spring morning recently. Looks like home, the bird ...

This little clapper rail dined leisurely in the tidal pool at First Landing State Park, as though it were all alone. The normally shy rail never noticed or else it never minded that my dog and I were ...