[texbirds] Re: RFI: Black Rail
- From: "John Arvin" <jarvin@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "doefamily@xxxxxxx" <doefamily@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:44:34 -0600
Bob,
It is late for this season but contact Jennifer Wilson, refuge biologist
for the Texas Midcoast NWR complex. She and volunteers (which have included
myself on a couple of occasions) catch and band both Black and Yellow Rails
on the middle Texas coast, usually in Jan. - Feb. I think they have a
Black/Yellow Rail marsh buggy ride in conjunction with their Migration
Celebration event in April; contact the refuge for information. The
celebration is headquartered at the San Bernard NWR.
John C. Arvin
Research Associate
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
103 West Hwy 332
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
jarvin@xxxxxxxx
www.gcbo.org
Austin, Texas
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From: "Clay Taylor" <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 9:27 PM
To: "doefamily@xxxxxxx" <doefamily@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Re: RFI: Black Rail
Huh, 99.999% of all Black Rail sightings are brief and inadequate. You
are in good company.
Seriously, there are well-heard and occasionally seen Black Rails at the
Port Aransas Birding Center in late winter / early spring, but it takes
frequent visits until you get lucky.
We heard a Black Rail calling in the wet marshy area of Hazel Bazemore
Park, Corpus Christi, in mid-April of 2011, obit not in 2012 (although I
did not visit it much in that period). One of the keys seemed to be a
bright moon in the middle of the night. No moonlight, no kee-kee-doo.
I guess that the only real "best shot" is to follow them to their breeding
grounds, and even then they can be confounding.
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "doefamily@xxxxxxx" <doefamily@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like info on where and how to find Black Rail along the Texas
Coast. My only previous observations ( just outside Pt Mugu Naval Air
Station, and Upper Newport Bay, both in California) were brief and
inadequate.
>
> I would accept hearing diagnostic calls, but I really want to see one.
>
> Bob Doe
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