black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) is a mouse-sized member of the rail family Rallidae that occurs in both North and South America. The black rail was...
17 KB (1,904 words) - 06:27, 25 December 2024
classified in the genus Laterallus. The Inaccessible Island rail has brown plumage, black bill and feet, and adults have a red eye. It occupies most habitats...
32 KB (3,993 words) - 21:18, 7 December 2024
Galapagos crake (redirect from Galápagos Rail)
endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It resembles its sister species, the black rail of the Americas, from which it diverged 1.2 million years ago. The Galapagos...
8 KB (875 words) - 12:07, 6 December 2024
The Black Rock Rail Yard is on the west side of Buffalo, New York, a half mile inland from the Niagara River, in the Black Rock neighborhood. The rail yard...
3 KB (284 words) - 00:42, 20 November 2022
it was similar to the small rails of the genus Laterallus, such as the black rail. Its coloration was essentially a lighter, more subdued version of that...
15 KB (1,860 words) - 21:14, 26 April 2024
Junin crake (redirect from Junin Rail)
described as a subspecies of the black rail in 1983 and in later years it has variably been considered a black rail subspecies or its own species. Its...
4 KB (333 words) - 16:55, 20 November 2023
known on the Black Mesa: Community Forums by the pseudonym TextFAMGUY1, also modified the "On a Rail" chapter to include the areas cut from Black Mesa to make...
57 KB (5,606 words) - 13:15, 10 December 2024
The Tahiti rail, Tahitian red-billed rail, or Pacific red-billed rail (Hypotaenidia pacifica) is an extinct species of rail that lived on Tahiti. It was...
19 KB (2,306 words) - 22:02, 23 August 2023
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology while...
69 KB (7,363 words) - 14:04, 26 December 2024
with the Napa Sonoma Marsh) present include Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus), California black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis), California brown pelican (Pelicanus...
20 KB (1,595 words) - 02:42, 21 December 2024
vegetation near water in the Neotropics, although a single species, the black rail, also occurs in the United States. The genus was erected by the English...
4 KB (364 words) - 12:10, 6 December 2024
National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, a group representing passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of...
26 KB (2,800 words) - 17:27, 5 December 2024
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel...
109 KB (12,441 words) - 21:35, 21 December 2024
includes such ubiquitous species as the crakes, coots, and gallinule; other rail species are extremely rare or endangered. Many are associated with wetland...
43 KB (4,187 words) - 12:36, 13 September 2024
It is a medium-sized and almost flightless rail with short wings and tail, olive-brown upperparts, black underparts with white bars and a red bill and...
9 KB (1,158 words) - 14:49, 19 December 2024
Rail Alphabet is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for signage on the British Rail network. First used...
14 KB (1,405 words) - 05:51, 20 December 2024
Purple gallinule, Porphyrio martinicus (A) Yellow rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis (A) Black rail, Laterallus jamaicensis (A) Order: Gruiformes Family:...
37 KB (4,464 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2024
Disappointment Island. The Auckland rail is a small rail with chestnut back plumage and a grey breast. The flanks are barred black and white and the head is red-brown...
4 KB (426 words) - 02:17, 21 March 2024
Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited (New Zealand Rail Limited until 1995), was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was...
33 KB (3,340 words) - 09:06, 15 September 2024
Phil Black is an Australian CNN International freelance reporter, based in London. Black joined CNN in April 2007 and covers stories around Europe. In...
2 KB (236 words) - 22:24, 15 December 2024
The water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern...
58 KB (6,648 words) - 21:10, 9 March 2024
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived...
60 KB (7,113 words) - 21:12, 9 December 2024
Honkai: Star Rail is a free-to-play role-playing gacha video game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under Cognosphere...
120 KB (5,562 words) - 01:46, 27 December 2024
The Virginia rail (Rallus limicola) is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. These birds remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat,...
7 KB (871 words) - 06:26, 25 December 2024
The rail fence cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) is a classical type of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the manner in which encryption...
7 KB (1,103 words) - 16:01, 16 September 2023
HuffPost. Daring to Touch the Third Rail, Robert Koehler, Newsweek, 01/19/08, "Obama has avoided being pigeonholed as the "black candidate" and has mostly steered...
20 KB (1,669 words) - 06:21, 17 December 2024
The grey-cowled wood rail or grey-necked wood rail (Aramides cajaneus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, the rails. It lives primarily in the...
23 KB (2,675 words) - 06:27, 25 December 2024
Via Rail Canada Inc. (reporting mark VIA) (/ˈviːə/), operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that operates...
94 KB (9,292 words) - 02:36, 7 December 2024
The Black Mesa Research Facility (also simply called Black Mesa) is a fictional underground laboratory complex that serves as the primary setting for the...
11 KB (1,376 words) - 13:09, 10 December 2024
crake, Laterallus albigularis Gray-breasted crake, Laterallus exilis Black rail, Laterallus jamaicensis (R?) Order: Gruiformes Family: Heliornithidae...
87 KB (9,319 words) - 01:44, 18 November 2024