If clapper rails were humans, their grandparents wouldn’t like them as youngsters. They directly contradict that old axiom about how well-mannered children should act — being often heard, but seldom ...

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 ...

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 ...