Michael Mace, Wild Animal Park curator of birds (far left), watches one of seven light-footed Ridgway's rails being released into the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve. The endangered marsh birds were hatched at the Wild Animal Park's Bird Breeding Center and at the Living Coast Discovery Center. The successful program continues, and more than 400 light-footed clapper rails have been released, as a result of a joint breeding and reintroduction program by Team Clapper Rail, a unique partnership between three breeding centers: Wild Animal Park (now San Diego Zoo Safari Park), Living Coast Discovery Center, and SeaWorld San Diego, along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Navy, Unified Port of San Diego, California Department of Fish and Game, and Huntington Beach Wetland Conservancy.