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Sonoran Joint Venture
  • About
    • Where We Work
    • Staff
    • Management Board
    • Science Working Group
    • Our Partners
    • Media Kit
  • News
    • Recent News
    • 2024 Events Calendar
    • eBulletin
    • Listserv
  • Resources
    • Arizona Species and Habitat Accounts
    • Borderlands Avian Data Center
    • PLuMA
    • Threats From Open Pipes
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    • Strategic Plan
    • Conservation Implementation Plan
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    • Waterfowl Management Supplement
  • Funding
    • SJV Awards Program
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Amelia at the Living Coast Discovery Center on display in 2015 (photo courtesy of Rinus Baak/USFWS Volunteer Photographer).

Amelia Takes the Record: Longest Movement of a Light-footed Ridgway’s Rail

July 13, 2023November 8, 2017

If you’ve heard of clapper rails, you may know they are not very agile fliers and tend to quietly prod around within the coastal salt marsh where they were born, or released into. But the endangered Light-footed Ridgway’s Rail in Southern California and Baja California is not so much of a “home body” as originally thought.

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The Sonoran Joint Venture is a regional partnership working to conserve the unique birds and habitats of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

El Sonoran Joint Venture es una sociedad regional que trabaja para la conservación de las singulares aves y hábitats del suroeste de los Estados Unidos y noroeste de México.

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  • About
    • Where We Work
    • Staff
    • Management Board
    • Science Working Group
    • Our Partners
    • Media Kit
  • News
    • Recent News
    • 2024 Events Calendar
    • eBulletin
    • Listserv
  • Resources
    • Arizona Species and Habitat Accounts
    • Borderlands Avian Data Center
    • PLuMA
    • Threats From Open Pipes
  • Planning
    • Strategic Plan
    • Conservation Implementation Plan
    • Bird Conservation Plan
    • Waterfowl Management Supplement
  • Funding
    • SJV Awards Program
    • Funded Projects