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This great photo comes from a hidden camera used by USGS Western Ecological Research Center biologists to study the California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) -- a federally endangered species that is found in San Francisco Bay. Biologists Mike Casazza, Cory Overton and their Dixon Field Station colleagues have been testing whether clapper rails will accept a type of artificial floating islands as nesting and hiding habitat.

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