California Ridgway's Rail

Ridgway's Rail -- Arrowhead Marsh, Oakland, CA
Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF-S 55-250mm IS II, 1/2000s, f/5.6, ISO: 800

Either somebody did a very effective job of banding the ridgway's rails at Arrowhead Marsh or I'm seeing the same bird over and over again.  It's not surprising they'd all be banded.  They're an endangered species, after all.  California ridgway's rails (one of three subspecies, all endangered) are found only along shorelines of the San Francisco Bay.

It might take a little bit of patience, but the rails are spotted with regularity at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland.  Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline, which was established to reintroduce the wetlands in which these birds thrive, the marsh is a great place to see birds doing what birds do.  It makes sense that there would be somebody keeping an eye on how the rails are getting along there.