The rail has vanished in plain sight, until Dinkins pushes the skiff a few feet deeper into the marsh, and the hard shells of periwinkle snails scraping the aluminum hull sound like long rips of paper ...
The team has had great success capturing clapper rails using an airboat, thermal imaging camera, spotlights and dip nets. Forty-two birds have been banded and outfitted with radio-transmitters in the ...