Nicholas Horton, at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Click image to read his bio.
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Black and Yellow Rails are two of the most elusive birds found in North Florida. They are small, secretive, and favor dense marsh vegetation where few birders ever tread. They are also species of conservation concern because of declining numbers and potential changes in coastal marshes as a result of climate change. Black and Yellow Rails are subjects of a NOAA-sponsored project in the Big Bend region where the goal is to determine the effects that prescribed fires might have on local populations. Stop by to find out more about these seldom seen birds and the unique role that Big Bend marshes play in their conservation.
Read The Secret Lives of Black Rails and the Scientists Who Seek Them, at Audubon.org.
Jim Cox at the Georgia Wade Tract
Speaker Bio: Jim Cox has been chasing birds across north Florida for 50 years. He was working with Tall Timbers Research Station during the period when this coastal work took place. Time these days is spent working with pineland species found on properties owned by the Arcadia Research Foundation near Thomasville
Yellow (Yellow-breasted) Rail Artwork by John James Audubon, Birds of North America
