[texbirds] Re: Black Rail sighting San Bernard
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "fcndc@xxxxxxxx" <fcndc@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:34:52 -0600
Yes. Yellow Rail will call late in migration in Texas. often after most birders
give up on the season. I have heard a few. Years ago night shift employees at
IBM in Austin found a bird at a brightly lit loading dock in mid-May. They
saved it for me in a covered bucket until the day shift. It was the first I had
ever held alive. The radio towers took down a number of them at ARL now JJ
Pickle Research Center in the 80's per Richard Obermiller who worked there
....as well as lots of other birds. I was lucky to hear them on territory in
80-81
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> On Dec 21, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Fred Collins <fcndc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I recall at least one big day effort many years ago when our group heard a
> yellow rail at Anahuac. Yes I could actually hear bird calls back in the 70s.
> But what I recall most vividly was the night we caught and banded 24 yellow
> rails. We bagged them and had more rails than bags do some bags had two or
> three birds. While we were processing them much to our surprise a couple of
> them called. The calls stopped us all in mid sentence to stare at the bags in
> wonder.
>
> So YellowRails might occasionally call in Texas, especially when in an Aggie
> snipe bag!
>
> Fred Collins
> At home on the prairie in
> Waller County
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>> On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:38 AM, David Sarkozi <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> One note, to the best of my knowledge there is no solid record of a
>> Yellow Rail calling in Texas, Black Rails, you can't get them to be
>> quite, but Yellows are silent to the best of my knowledge and
>> experience.
>>
>> If you do think you have a Yellow Rail calling, do try to get a
>> recording, even if its just a voice memo on a smart phone. It would be
>> the first documentation of a Yellow Rail calling in Texas.
>>
>> I've spent a lot of time listening on the Yellow Rail Prairie at
>> Anahauc with no luck on Yellow Rail.
>>
>> If you do want to go listen for Black Rail I recall reading a Florida
>> study where Black Rails called more on the full moon.
>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Dennis Shepler <dawgler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Howdy Texbirders,
>>
>>> Additionally, one cannot use electronic calls on the Refuge. Yet, there
>>> is much habitat in the area that could possibly have the rail present. One
>>> place that one might consider is FM 2918, which extends from FM 2611 to the
>>> Intracoastal Waterway. The area has extensive habitat for the rail, which
>>> Saltmeadow Cordgrass (*Spartina* *patens*) ...or Saltmarsh Hay. One might
>>> consider a night trip to the area and listen for both the Black Rail or
>>> Yellow Rail.
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Sarkozi
>> Houston, TX
>> (713) 412-4409 twitter ID dsarkozi
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