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New Sightings of Endangered California Clapper Rail on Gallinas Creek
California State Status: Endangered
United States Federal Status: Endangered
County endangered in: San Mateo/ Marin/ Alameda
Bioregion: Bay Area Delta
Threats to species:
* Habitat loss from construction of oil fields
* Non-native prdators
* Habitat alteration due to industral development
According to the California Academy of Sciences,
these are the three primary threats to the California
clapper rail. This information was retrieved through
an internet search for California clapper rail and was
copied off of the California Academy of Sciences
website, under California species images. The proposed
soccer site qualifies as both loss of habitat and
habitat alteration due to industrial development,
numbers one and three on the top three threats to this
species, which is on both federal and state endangered
and protected species lists.
The video of the California clapper rail was shot on
September 25, 2006 between 10 and 11 AM in Santa
Venetia, California on Gallinas creek in back of a
home on Schmidt Lane. The GPS coordinates for
this sighting are 37.53 North, 119.13 West.
The endangered California Clapper Rail is under threat from a construction project to build a huge indoor soccer stadium near its prime habitat. City of San Rafael environmental impact studies have been criticized for not being thorough enough in their assessments of the impacts on the rails. Video evidence such as what is presented here is proof that the rails use a much wider area of activity than the developer is willing to acknowledge. This footage was shot on Monday, Sept 25th 2006 on the southern end of Gallinas Creek in Marin County California.
For more information please visit GallinasCreek.org
For more information:
http://gallinascreek.org
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