Order
Gruiformes
Family
Rallidae
Genus
Coturnicops
 
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Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis

Lionel Leston and Theodore A. Bookhout
Version: 2.0 — Published March 2, 2015

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Figure 1.  Distribution of the Yellow Rail in North and Middle America. - Range Map
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  • Year-round
  • Migration
  • Breeding
  • Non-Breeding
Figure 1. Distribution of the Yellow Rail in North and Middle America.

Very local breeder throughout range. Casual to other U.S. states.

Recommended Citation

Leston, L. and T. A. Bookhout (2015). Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.139