Yellow rail

Yellow rail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Coturnicops
Species:
C. noveboracensis
Binomial name
Coturnicops noveboracensis
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Subspecies
  • C. n. noveboracensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
  • C. n. goldmani (Nelson, 1904)
  Breeding
  Migration
  Nonbreeding

The yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) is a small secretive marsh bird of the family Rallidae that is found in North America.

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