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Utilizing Vocalizations to Survey, Identify and Monitor Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) on Long Island, New York

Creator:

McMaugh, Andria L.

Abstract:

The Eastern black rail (laterallus jamaicanesis) is the smallest of the rail species and facing catastrophic decline throughout its home range. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the black rail population has decreased as much as 90%, leading to its proposed Federal listing as threatened under the Endangered...

Resource Type:

Capstone Project

Full Text:

breeding range (McGowan and Corwin 2008). Black rails were first documented in New York in 1870 in Yates