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Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis is a rail of eastern and central North America, breeding in wet meadows, fens and shallow marshes. It is a secretive marsh bird and is seldom seen. Adults show brown upperparts marked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a pale belly and barred flanks. The back feathers are edged in white, and there is a yellow-brown stripe above the eye. The bill is short and dark, turning yellow in males in the breeding season. The legs are greenish-yellow.
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae — Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Breeding range
- North America: e, c
