#clapper rail

[antiqueanimals]

Virginia Wildlife; vol. 32, no. 10. October, 1971. Illustration by John W. Taylor.

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[alonglistofbirds]

[2495/11080] Clapper rail - Rallus crepitans

Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae (rails)

Photo credit: Aaron Boone via Macaulay Library

[zoology-time]

Clapper Rail, Rallus crepitans

[birdblues]

Clapper Rail

[admiralgiggles]

Clapper Rail

[swvawildlifecenter]

ANOTHER unusual bird! This is a juvenile Clapper Rail, a secretive coastal marsh species that is only found inland during migration (currently ongoing) or if the bird has been displaced due to storms. Found in Patrick County by the rescuer (see last photo of the bird on the ground), this patient cannot stand and was likely injured in a collision. Clapper Rails have many adaptations allowing them to live near the ocean, including having special glands that allow them to drink sea water and eggs that can still hatch even after being submerged underwater for eighteen hours!

[rjalker]

[ID: A short video clip of a clapper rail, a small brown marsh bird, swimming in a river with dark brown water, with mud and reeds behind it. The rail is swimmingly slowly, towards the camera at a diagonal, before it suddenly jumps, turns around, and swims faster back towards the shore. The only sound is the blowing of the wind. End ID.]

This clapper rail was swimming the same way I would be in this water. The second something touches me I'm out.

Here's the observation for this bird on this day on iNaturalist.

And here's a gif of it taking a bath :)

[ID: A gif of the same bird, now sitting in the water directly next to the muddy shore, dipping its head and body repeatedly under the water, before standing, and running up the muddy hill into some reeds. End ID.]

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Ridgeway Rails and Clapper Rails live in Colorado River marshes in southwestern north america. i was doing some research on them for a story of mine but couldn't fit them in

:( the contest had a word limit

they can be found on the Yuma native american reservation and both are near endangered. they also kinda look funny and would be cool to draw.

Sure, here's your bird. :D

Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus)

Near Threatened

Pacific coast & Western North America

Threats: Habitat loss & degradation, pollution, agriculture, climate change

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans) © John Gerrard Keulemans

It hatches from abundant, brown, dark, diffuse, drab, dull, few, harsh, large, orange, overall, pale, shy, similar, variable, vocal, and white eggs.

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[thelostcanyon]

Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans), South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas.

[putah-creek]

Losing the ability to describe the birds, You become a bird. A Clapper Rail in the Delta, perhaps. Feathers. Like your finest suit. Little claws. Strong like iron, like steel. Like your mother at her strongest. Beak. It is at once a weapon, a tool, And a place to put food. It is a kind of whistle. And wings. A life in flight. You cannot describe the birds anymore, It's a little sad, but you feel better As you bank into the wind And rise up to the roof of silver clouds.

james lee jobe

[antiqueanimals]

Florida Wildlife; vol. 11, no. 4. September, 1957. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

ooooh ask game :D

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to

7. Character fandom had me begin to hate: Catra, for a while. In the early days of the fandom, particularly if you found yourself gravitating toward gremlins (Entrapta, in my case - Adora, Catra, Bow and Glimmer were the main characters first season), everyone going gaga over Catra felt like... "I'm over here, in my little corner." She felt overhyped, even surpassing Adora - the hero - in popularity. And then when season 2 hit, I was one of the earliest Entrapdak-people. Honestly, back then, I treated it as a lark, didn't think it would last, but even THEN some of the "You shouldn't be shipping this ship over the girl-ship / you shouldn't be liking this mean, horrible ugly male villain (even as a side-dish to the cool science gremlin)!" started. People who thought it was more righteous to enjoy Catra / "you must enjoy Catra at the expense of Hordak" bullshit started. When Season 3 happened and the Entrapdak pool-noodle became a dreadnought and people started getting interested in Hordak independently as more of his story was revealed, that's when the fecal matter hit the turbine in terms of the frankly weird Catra vs. Hordak war in the fandom. I really got tired of being called an "abuse apologist" and having it insinuated that I was pro-colonialism because I enjoyed a cartoon space alien dark lord and his Pinky and the Brain-esque realationship with my favorite mad scientist. All while people were holding up Catra as blameless, Catra as only a poor widdle victim. It got annoying to a lot of Hordak-fans and Entrapdak-fans. There was a backlash. I don't think I came to hate her as much as some on that side of the fandom did, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have animosity for the character for a good, long time. I've learned to part myself from the negative experiences in fandom and actually analyze Catra from finding myself enjoying her whenever I re-watch the series. Sweary She-Ra has also gone a long way toward me considering her internal issues and psychological states, despite it being a fanwork / not canon. It is one of those surprisingly insightful fanworks. 14. That one thing I see in fanfics all the time: Characterization getting de-railed for what is obviously an author's personal vision or projection - ex. quick happy endings for fluff, woobiefication for MAXIMUM ANGST. Sometimes the authors even know about it (their notes). 22. Favorite ignored thing: Honestly, I ought to put this in one of my fics just so it stops getting neglected. Not enough people talk about how Entrapta's automated systems in her castle ran on The Clapper. I never had one, but I grew up with those annoying commercials. It amuses me greatly. 23. Ship I've unwillingly come around to: I'm not sure there's any. I am pretty chill with shipping in this fandom. (It's one of my other fandoms where my Bro-TP is almost everyone and their dog's OTP and I feel like tearing my hair out). Maybe Catradora. I always saw it as canon - it was just an obvious "they're leaning into this" from the beginning for me, but there was a point in canon where Catra had gone so far into choosing destruction that I wondered if Glimmadora might be endgame instead and if that would have been the better main ship. It took Catra making a start toward better choices (and being denied her deathwish) to make it start working for me. That, and I think reading something you said about Adora's choices and "fuck Shadow Weaver" that made me see it in a better light.

[zoology-time]

Clapper Rail (nest with eggs), Rallus crepitans

[keywestwildlifecenter]

Today's wild bird releases: Glad to get the Clapper Rail rescued down in offshore waters by Fury Water Adventures and the Killdeer rescued down with a wing injury returned to the wild! Photo credits: Debra Brittin Babich #wildlife #rehabilitationwildlife

[justsomehibird]

bird every name. Didn't think so sweatie

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Caatinga parakeet

Caatinga puffbird

Cabanis's bunting

Cabanis's greenbul

Cabanis's ground sparrow

Cabanis's seedeater

Cabanis's spinetail

Cabanis's wren

Cabot's tern

Cabot's tragopan

Cachar bulbul

Cachar wedge-billed babbler

Cackling goose

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Cactus wren

Caica parrot

Calandra lark

Calayan rail

California condor

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California towhee

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Cameroon greenbul

Cameroon indigobird

Cameroon olive greenbul

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Cameroon sunbird

Camiguin hanging parrot

Camiguin hawk-owl

Campbell albatross

Campbell shag

Campbell teal

Campbell's fairywren

Campina thrush

Campo flicker

Campo miner

Campo troupial

Canada goose

Canada jay

Canada warbler

Canary flyrobin

Canary Islands chiffchaff

Canary Islands oystercatcher

Canary Islands stonechat

Canary white-eye

Canebrake groundcreeper

Canebrake wren

Canivet's emerald

Canvasback

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Cape Verde swift

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