Actually, leapt is a stretch. These slender, gawky birds take off with all the grace of a pregnant coot. Cross a chicken with a snipe and put the result on a 30-day diet and you’d approximate the rail ...

We walked to the beat of clapper rail castanets at Pleasure House Point recently. Red-winged blackbirds provided high notes with their territorial calls. The music was sort of a rapid clack, clack, ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Mother Nature can be cruel. Tropical Storm Cristobal brought about a thousand birds known as clapper rails onto the Harrison County beaches. They are a long way from home. “We ...

Wildlife biologists from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and the Nemours Wildlife Foundation are working together to study king and clapper rails in the Ashepoo, Combahee, Edisto (ACE) Basin.