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Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Check out our latest featured story... Learning Secrets of the Bay: Endangered Ridgway's Rails Released Into South San Diego Bay Marshland The Hazards of High Tide: A Light-footed Ridgway's rail -- Rallus obsoletus (formerly Light-footed Clapper Rail) emerges from hiding with a rising tide at San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Rinus Baak/USFWS   By Jon Myatt October 3, 2016 A team of biologists and volunteers released six endangered Light-footed Ridgway's rails on San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge last week. The hen-sized birds were bred in captivity at the SeaWorld rail breeding facility  and are about two months old. On Tuesday under a sunny sky, when the team's lead biologist Dick Zembal gave the command to open the carriers, the birds burst out, heading straight for the marsh as wildlife biologists, including those with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others who helped raise them, cheered them on. In a flash, the birds quickly disappeared into the salt marsh. For decades, a Team Clapper Rail -- a partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, SeaWorld, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the U.S. Navy and others -- has been working to bring this secretive marsh bird species back from the brink.   Continue to the full story...   Stay Connected with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Pacific Southwest Region     This email was sent to mantiskhiralla@gmail.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Pacific Southwest Region · 2800 Cottage Way · Suite W-2606 · Sacramento, CA 95825