King rail Rallus elegans
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Length: 14 inches Wingspan: 24 inches
Fairly large, chunky, short-tailed, round-winged, ground-dwelling marsh bird
Long, slightly decurved bill
Most often seen walking, rarely flies ...
The King Rail (Rallus elegans) is a large, mostly fresh-water rail of the southeastern United States. The first 4 shots on this page, of a vocalizing bird, were taken at Anahuac N.W.R., Chambers Co.
King Rail Juvenile - The juvenile King Rail is paler overall and lacks the rufous colors. Upperparts are dark gray-brown and underparts are mottled white.
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"King Rail, Rallus elegans." Best Management Practices. Missouri Department of Conservation. Accessed 19 April 2007.
DESCRIPTION: King rails are the largest rail found in North America. It is a medium sized marsh bird with a compressed slender compact body. Average length of an adult is 15 to 19 inches.
King Rail
(Rallus elegans)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2006
Breeding Status:-
2002 to 2006: Confirmed
This species is State Endangered.
King Rail
Last updated 3/12/96
King Rails are the close cousins of Clapper Rails. King Rails tend to keep more to the fresh water marshes, while Clapper Rails inhabit the salt water marshes. Hybrids are know where habitats merge.
King Rail
Rallus elegans Audubon
Status One sight record. On 15 September 1957 Betty June and Sidney Smith observed a large rail which they identified as this species on the open terrain of Cape Sable Island.
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Life History & Michigan History
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King Rail
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Virginia Rail
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
King Rail
Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae
Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules.
Habitat utilization by sora, Virginia rails, and king rails near southwestern Lake Erie. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University. 112 p. Thesis. [60905] 3. Arno, Stephen F. 1980. Forest fire history in the Northern Rockies. Journal of Forestry.
Flush counts were used to determine density estimates of King Rail, Sora, Virginia Rail, American Bittern, Least Bittern, and Common Snipe, and were performed along stratified, ...
THE GREAT RED-BREASTED RAIL, OR FRESH-WATER MARSH-HEN.
[King Rail.]
RALLUS ELEGANS, Aud.
[Rallus elegans.] ...
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
Sora (Porzana carolina)
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) ...
 See also: Clapper Rail, Virginia Rail, Bittern, Purple, Cowbird
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