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The California Clapper Rail

The San Francisco Bay Estuary is home to many organisms that are found nowhere else on earth and if you know the right place to look and with a little luck, you can see something truly mystifying. The California Clapper Rail is defiantly one of these rare organisms; the California Clapper Rail has been on the endangered species list since 1970. Only found in the San Francisco Bay the California Clapper Rail is an unique animal to the estuary. The California Clapper Rail is facing some very serious threats including habitat loss because of urban development, rising sea levels due to climate change, changes of their native habitats by invasive plants, threat of non-native predators, and increased exposure to mercury and other pollutants. The California Rail Clapper is not alone in its’ journey back from the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently implementing a recovery plan. They hope to one day reintroduce California Clapper Rails back to restored marshes.

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