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Gray cheeks and relatively small size make me think Virginia Rail over Clapper ...
Virginia Rails live in marshes and rarely come out of the reeds and into the ...
Photo by park visitor, Keith Olstad, shared with permission.
Managed to flush one while walking through the marsh, but these tracks were all ...
This bird was captured at a banding station near Rockton, Illinois and released ...
A very uncommon sighting in the middle of such a big city!
The Virginia Rail is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.
Found dead. The only one of its type I have ever seen in this area.
small waterbird, who are brown, darker back and head, with orange legs.
Chickenlike marsh bird with a long, heavy bill and a short, upturned tail.
With all the recent rain Great Meadows NWR was flooded and that brought the ...
This rail was across the road from the previous spotting. It may be a young ...
A secretive bird of freshwater marshes, the Virginia Rail most often remains ...
I was walking along the road at the Ridgefield NWR and heard some rustling in ...
A secretive bird of freshwater marshes, the Virginia Rail most often remains ...
A secretive bird of freshwater marshes, the Virginia Rail most often remains ...
This is one of the Rails found in the Bay Area. A elusive bird, it hides out ...