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The Light-footed Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris levipes) is a habitat specialist. It only lives in wetlands along the coast of southern CA and northern Baja CA, Mexico. These wetlands have always been rare because they only grow where really flat land meets the ocean which does not happen at many places from Santa Barbara County south. In California there are about 30 coastal wetlands from Goleta Slough near U.C. Santa Barbara south to Tijuana Marsh National Wildlife Refuge on the Mexican border but most of them are not healthy enough today to support very many Clapper Rails. Status: The Light-footed Clapper Rail was declared an endangered species in 1973. Now, 31 years later it is still endangered but certainly better off than it was because of the protection and management efforts its listing made possible. These birds depend upon one of the most productive habitats we have in southern CA, coastal salt marsh. By the late 1960s more than 70 percent of the coastal marshes in southern CA had been dredged for marinas or near-shore housing, or had been filled in and built upon. Most of the marsh acreage left was highly degraded and continues to be affected by the millions of people living on its very edge. |
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| Author | Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by USFWS Pacific Southwest Region at https://flickr.com/photos/54430347@N04/5537158639 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 May 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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