From the back of the skiff, on a homemade poling platform bolted to the johnboat hull, Walter “Joe Guide” Dinkins is taking no chances. “Watch close, now,” the 59-year-old says. “Watch good. These ...

During a recent stay at Pawleys Island in South Carolina, I enjoyed birding along the Grand Strand. During my stay, I enjoyed observations of such coastal specialties as wood stork, white ibis, little ...

The team has had great success capturing clapper rails using an airboat, thermal imaging camera, spotlights and dip nets. Forty-two birds have been banded and outfitted with radio-transmitters in the ...

The rail has vanished in plain sight, until Dinkins pushes the skiff a few feet deeper into the marsh, and the hard shells of periwinkle snails scraping the aluminum hull sound like long rips of paper ...