One More New Bird
One More New Bird – I wasn’t sure what this bird was. A duck or something else. It took awhile to find it in my bird book.
But it is a Clapper Rail, it looks half duck and half something else. Even when I looked up information on this bird, this is what it says.
This bird is a member of the rail family, Rallidae. The taxonomy for this species is confusing and still being determined. It is a large brown rail that is resident in wetlands along the Atlantic coasts of the eastern United States, eastern Mexico and some Caribbean islands.
One More New Bird
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Hmm – well as long as the Rail doesn’t mind being a species that “is confusing and still being determined” that is okay, but isn’t that odd with all the bird experts that they would say that? It is a bit odd looking, but looks like a female Mallard mostly.
Fantastic !
💙💙💙🧡🧡🙏
Thank you very much Francine ☺️ 😊
Great “catch”! All rails are especially furtive.
This is my first sighting of a rail. I had never heard of them before.
That’s not surprising! I’d never seen one until I was birding in the Charleston, SC area in the late 1980s, then I never saw another one.
Great catch 👏👏👏. Near invisible critters 😂. Most times we spot them going a million miles an hour, away from us.
I was so surprised to see it, I wasn’t sure what it was. 🙂
That’s an odd bill fof a water bird. good on you for the new bird 🤣🙃😎
Yes, especially when the body looks like a duck 🙂
It’s that just the o e around on the water, or is there another one nearby?
I would not have known what that bird was.
It is the only one I saw and it was moving fast trying to get back into the long grass.
Interesting indeed!