Identifying the individuals within a population can generate information on life history
parameters, generate input data for conservation models, and highlight behavioural traits …

Little is known about the population status of many marsh-dependent birds in North America
but recent efforts have focused on collecting more reliable information and estimates of …

Many species of marsh birds (eg rails and bitterns) are believed to be declining in North
America, yet we lack an effective monitoring program to estimate their population trends …

Many species of marsh birds (rails, bitterns, grebes, etc.) rely exclusively on emergent marsh
vegetation for all phases of their life cycle, and many organizations have become concerned …

Tape playback is often the only efficient technique to survey for secretive birds. We
measured the vocal responses and movements of radiotagged black rails (Laterallus …

Aim Predicting distributions is fundamental to ecology, yet hindered by spatially restricted
sampling, scale‐dependent relationships and detection error associated with field surveys …

We examined mercury exposure in 133 endangered California clapper rails (Rallus
longirostris obsoletus) within tidal marsh habitats of San Francisco Bay, California from 2006 …

Green spaces in cities are thought to play an important role in maintaining urban
biodiversity. However, it is difficult to create large new areas of green space in big cities …

Rails (family Rallidae) are vulnerable to the impacts of invasive mammals, and this is
particularly true for species on oceanic islands. The endemic Galápagos rail (Laterallus …

Optimal survey methods for estimating population trends are those that result in high
detection probability and low temporal variance in detection probability. We compared …