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| Date: | Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:40:56 -0400 |
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Hi all,
Just a cautionary note about "Yellow Rail". There is an amphibian,
Blanchard's Cricket Frog, that sounds very much like Yellow Rail. More
than a few birders have been fooled by these tiny frogs with the big,
clicking voice. In fact, one of the greatest birding wild goose/rail
chases in the state's history involved confusion between these two, but
that's another story... I was at Charlie's Pond a few days ago and the
cricket frogs were in full tune right in the same wet swale as the Black
Rail. They were quite conspicuous.
The tonal quality of this frog and Yellow Rail is similar enough that we
included the frog on the same track with the rail on the Division of
Wildlife's "Waterbirds of Ohio" CD, if you want to hear them side by
side.
Jim
Jim McCormac
Ohio Division of Wildlife
2045 Morse Rd., G-3
Columbus, Ohio 43229
614-265-6440
614-262-1143 fax
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Yellow Rail - Black Rail Charlies Pond
Bruce Simpson left me a voice mail this morning asking me to post that
thier is a Yellow Rail and Black Rail at Charlies Pond.
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