Secretive black rail bird could enter threatened species status in PA
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 20, 2023
The black rail bird may soon be listed as a threatened species in Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners voted to preliminarily reclassify the shorebird as state-threatened during a two-day meeting in Erie Sept. 15-16. The proposal will be voted on for final consideration at the January board meeting.
“Black rail is our smallest and most secretive rail. It has a habit of living in marshes and being fairly nocturnal make it the epitome of being a secretive marsh bird,” Patricia Barber, endangered bird biologist . . .
