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* Survey incomplete due to poor tides. <br />** Survey conducted by California Department of Fish and Game. <br />Recent clapper rail population estimates for the entire South Bay are as follows: <br />California Cla per Rail South Bay Population Estimates* <br />Year <br />Year <br />Location <br />1995 -1996 <br />1996 -1997 <br />1997 -1998 <br />1998 -1999 <br />1999 -2000 <br />2000 -2001 <br />2001 -2002 <br />Belmont <br />No survey <br />No survey <br />No survey <br />5 <br />5 <br />4 <br />No survey <br />Slough <br />675 <br />650 <br />650 <br />550 <br />550 <br />Low <br />200 <br />Bird Island <br />2* <br />1* <br />3* <br />0* <br />3 <br />9 <br />No survey <br />Redwood <br />3* <br />4 <br />2 <br />4 <br />1 <br />2 <br />No survey <br />Cit Levee <br />700 <br />700 <br />700 <br />600 <br />600 <br />Redwood <br />No survey <br />0* <br />0* <br />1 <br />0 <br />0 <br />No survey <br />City Marsh <br />Steinberger <br />No survey <br />0* <br />0* <br />0* <br />No survey <br />0* <br />No survey <br />Slough <br />Bair <br />10 <br />3 <br />3 <br />13 <br />21 <br />No survey <br />No survey <br />Island ** <br />* Survey incomplete due to poor tides. <br />** Survey conducted by California Department of Fish and Game. <br />Recent clapper rail population estimates for the entire South Bay are as follows: <br />California Cla per Rail South Bay Population Estimates* <br />Year <br />91/92 <br />92/93 <br />93/94 <br />94/95 <br />95/96 <br />96/97 <br />97/98 <br />98/99 <br />99/00 <br />00/01 <br />01/02 <br />Average <br />250 <br />545 <br />600 <br />600 <br />550 <br />550 <br />675 <br />650 <br />650 <br />550 <br />550 <br />Low <br />200 <br />-- <br />-- <br />-- <br />500 <br />500 <br />650 <br />600 <br />600 <br />500 <br />500 <br />High <br />300 <br />-- <br />-- <br />-- <br />600 <br />600 <br />700 <br />700 <br />700 <br />600 <br />600 <br />* Source: Joy Albertson, SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex, 510 - 792 -0222; 99/00, 00/01, <br />01/02 data from Joy on 1/18/02. Decrease in the South Bay Clapper Rail numbers only; other locations are <br />doing better, thus Joy believes something is happening locally to decrease the population. <br />References: <br />Albertson, Joy. 1996. Restoring salt marsh habitat for the recovery of California clapper rails. <br />Tideline. Vol 16 No. 4 1 -3. <br />Albertson, Joy D., and Jules G. Evens. 2000. California Clapper Rail in Goals Project's Baylands <br />Eco ystem Species and Community Profiles Life Histories and Environmental Requirements for Key <br />Plants, Fish and Wildlife. Prepared by the San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystems Goals <br />Project. P.R. Olafson, editor. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, <br />California. <br />California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Planning Branch. 2000. The Status <br />of Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Animals and Plants in California, California Clapper Rail. <br />California Department of Water Resources Interagency Ecological Program. California Clapper Rail, <br />in Wildlife of the Suisun Marsh. On -line at http: / /iep.water.ca.gov. <br />California State Coastal Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Final Programmatic <br />Environmental Impact Statement/ Environmental Impact Report, San Franczsco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project.- <br />Spartina Control Program. September. <br />7 <br />