Californai+Clapper+Rail+2010

By:Kerri L.



The California Clapper Rail is a chicken sized bird that rarely flies. The California Clapper Rail has a long, downward curving beak. The California Clapper Rail is a grayish brown with a light chestnut breast and a white rump patch. The California Clapper Rail lives in the upper part of marshes, the ecotone in between mudflats, and in tidal sloughs. The California Clapper Rail eats mussels, clams, arthropods, snails, worms, small fish, dead fish, and mice. The California Clapper Rail Breeds from mid-March to July, there is peak activity in June. The females lay their eggs in clutches of four to fourteen in twig nests. In eighteen to twenty-nine days the eggs will hatch, the hatching success rates is 38%. The California Clapper Rail is endangered due to loss of habitat and hunting. To save the California Clapper Rail we must stop destroying their habitats and stop hunting them.