Virginia Rail Images, Facts and Information:<\/h2>\n
Rallus limicola<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n- Virginia Rails are small chicken-like marshbirds with long, reddish decurved bills, dark backs, rufous breasts and throats, gray cheeks, reddish eyes, strong legs and short tails.<\/li>\n
- Virginia Rails can laterally compress their bodies to get through tight spots.<\/li>\n
- Virginia Rails prefer freshwater marsh habitat that includes dense emergent vegetation such as cattails, reeds and tall grasses. They will occasionally live in saltwater marshes.<\/li>\n
- Virginia Rails are migratory.<\/li>\n
- Virginia rails eat seeds, aquatic vegetation, insects, insect larvae, fish, small snakes and frogs.<\/li>\n
- Virginia Rails lay 4 to 13 eggs which take 20 days to hatch. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.<\/li>\n
- A group of Virginia Rails is called a “reel” of rails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I hope you enjoy viewing my Virginia Rail photos. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>
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