. . esummer home. They show a preference for stagnant watersurrounded by cattails and bulrushes. Gallinules sometimes appear as a connecting linkbetween rails and coots. I have observed the king, sora,and Virginia rails, with the coot, nesting near to gallinules,and noted a striking resemblance between the gallinules andsome rails; for instance, the sora, with its compressed bodyand widespread toes, always reminds me of a small galli-nule. Both swim about among the rushes, and I noticedthat one sora deposited her eggs in a gallinules
. . esummer home. They show a preference for stagnant watersurrounded by cattails and bulrushes. Gallinules sometimes appear as a connecting linkbetween rails and coots. I have observed the king, sora,and Virginia rails, with the coot, nesting near to gallinules,and noted a striking resemblance between the gallinules andsome rails; for instance, the sora, with its compressed bodyand widespread toes, always reminds me of a small galli-nule. Both swim about among the rushes, and I noticedthat one sora deposited her eggs in a gallinules nest. Like the coot, the gallinule often breeds in nests are built in clumps of dead rushes and floatupon the water in a manner similar to that of a grebe. Othernests are suspended a foot or two above the water, and arehandsomely woven with blades of grass and rushes. Whenthe nest is completed a pathway is constructed of the samematerial that is used in building the nest proper, and formsa runwav extending from the nest into the water. This is a.
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