King Rail
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
King Rail
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A King Rail catches a crawfish to feed to its three chicks at Anahuac NWR in Texas.
A chicken-sized marsh bird, the largest of our rails. Nesting in fresh-water marshes of the east, the King Rail has become an uncommon species as many wetlands have been drained. It remains locally common near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where it is not especially shy, often stalking about at the marsh edge in full view of observers. Closely related to the Clapper Rail, and may interbreed with it in zones where salt and fresh marshes meet.
The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas, west of the town of High Island, Texas. It borders East Bay, part of the Galveston Bay complex, behind Bolivar Peninsula at the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 20th, 2018
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Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Jurgen – your predator and prey have been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2022 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
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