Yellow rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
Identification Tips:
Length: 5 inches
Small, chunky, short-tailed, round-winged, ground-dwelling marsh bird
White secondaries
Short, thick, yellow bill ...
YELLOW RAIL
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Coturnicops novaboracensis (Gmelin)
OTHER NAMES: Yellow Crake, Little Yellow Rail (Terres 1980).
Yellow Rail: Breeds from the Maritime Provinces to Alberta and the southern part of the Northwest Territories, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oregon.
Yellow Rail Behaviour
No observations regarding Yellow Rail behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Yellow Rails ...
The Yellow Rail breeds from the Canadian Maritimes to the wetlands of the northern Great Plains, including parts of the upper Midwest. Around Saint John's Bay, Canada, this rail was common as recently as 2004.
Yellow Rail
(Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1991
This species is State Endangered. It is in danger of extinction as a breeding species in the state of Illinois.
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracenis (Gmelin)
Status Rare transient, very rare in summer. Considered rare by several nineteenth century authors, but only Jones (1885) refers to a specimen, collected at Cole Harbour, Halifax County.
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
Last updated 5/25/98 Yellow Rails are common wintering birds at Anahuac NWR and San Bernard NWR, but they aren't in easy to see habitat.
Yellow Rail
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
Yellow Rail
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Redhead
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Yellow Rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis
Black Rail, Laterallus jamaicensis
Corn Crake, Crex crex (C)
Clapper Rail, Rallus longirostris
King Rail, Rallus elegans
Virginia Rail, Rallus limicola
Sora, Porzana carolina ...
Swinhoe's Rail, Coturnicops exquisitus
Yellow Rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis
Speckled Rail, Coturnicops notatus
Genus Micropygia (Ocellated Crake) ...
YELLOW-BREASTED RAIL.
[Yellow Rail.]
ORTYGOMETRA NOVEBORACENSIS, Lath.
[Coturnicops noveboracensis.] ...
Despite the lack of direct impact of fire on rails during prescribed fires in the coastal prairie of Texas, indirect mortality of Virginia rails and yellow rails (Coturnicops noveboracensis) due to fire-related predation was observed [22].
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
Sora (Porzana carolina)
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) ...
 See also: Sora, Virginia Rail, Purple, Coot, American Coot
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