Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Louisiana
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Louisiana Project

King rail habitat relationships in freshwater and brackish marshes of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas

September 2007 - September 2012

Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • Science Support Partnership
Radio telemetry, call back surveys, and remote sensing techniques are being used to determine local and landscape scale habitat characteristics influencing King Rail movements and distribution.

The objectives of this proposed project are to: 1) Determine the distribution of King Rails in selected marsh habitats of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas, including freshwater and brackish marshes, in both managed and unmanaged sites; 2) Determine local and landscape scale habitat characteristics that affect King Rail distribution in coastal marshes; and 3) Develop GIS-based habitat models to predict King Rail distribution and abundance.