Yellow Rail

Adults have brown upperparts streaked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a light belly and barred flanks. The short thick dark bill turns yellow in males during the breeding season. The feathers on the back are edged with white. There is a yellow brown band over the eye and the legs are greenish-yellow.

The Yellow Rail is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Yellow Rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis, is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. Adults have brown upperparts streaked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a light belly and barred flanks. The short thick dark bill turns yellow in males during the breeding season. The feathers on the back are edged with white. There is a yellow brown band over the eye and the legs are greenish-yellow. More

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Because of its secretive nature, the Yellow Rail is infrequently encountered. The second-smallest rail in North America, it breeds in sedge marshes and winters in marshes and hay fields. More

Note: Most surveys of breeding Yellow Rails have been conducted at night (Devitt 1939; Stalheim 1974; Stenzel 1982; Bart et al. 1984; Savaloja 1984; Bookhout and Stenzel 1987; Gibbs et al. 1991; Grimm 1991; Burkman 1993; Stern et al. 1993; Robert and Laporte 1997; Prescott et al. 2001, 2002; Lundsten and Popper 2002). More

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Yellow rail - Dictionary Definition and Overview = Yellow \Yel"low\, a. elow, eoluw, from AS. geolu; akin to D. geel, OS. & OHG. gelo, G. gelb, Icel. gulr, Sw. gul, Dan. guul, L. helvus light bay, Gr. ? young verdure, ? greenish yellow, Skr. hari tawny, yellowish. ???. Cf. Chlorine, Gall a bitter liquid, Gold, Yolk. More

Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis WatchList 2007 Status: http://web1.audubon.org/filerepository/science/speciesprofiles/watchlist/Red.gif Family: RALLIDAE Order: Gruiformes Spanish Common Name: Polluela amarilla, Gallineta amarilla, Polluela amarillenta French Common Name: Râle jaune U.S. More

breed, the Yellow Rail breeds exclusively in Canada and the northern U.S. Its breeding distribution appears to be quite local and disjunct. It winters in the U.S., near the east coast from North Carolina to eastern Texas. The Canadian breeding range includes the Mackenzie District of the Northwest Territories, eastern Alberta, central Saskatchewan, most of Manitoba and Ontario, the southern half of Quebec, all of New Brunswick, and northern Nova Scotia. More

Yellow Rail - Coturnicops noveboracensis Species of Concern Global Rank: G4 State Rank: S3B Agency Status USFWS: none USFS: none BLM: SENSITIVE FWP Conservation Tier: 1 PIF: 3 Listen to an Audio Sample Copyright by Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio More

* The Yellow Rail was first described in 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, a German naturalist. * They are very elusive and seldom seen; when approached, they are more likely to rely on camouflage than flight. * Their distinctive clicking calls are given almost exclusively at night. More

The small Yellow Rail is known for its elusive ways; much of its life history remains unknown. In wet meadows and grassy fresh and salt water marshes, this relative of coots and cranes stays close to the ground and prefers to run, rather than fly from threats. The Yellow Rails' migration, wintering, and breeding habitats have been shrinking. With an estimated global population of only 17,500 individuals, conservation efforts have focused on saving the bird's habitat. More

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.It is possible to see Yellow Rails on the UTC but you have to be armed with a little knowledge (and a little help from your friends wouldn't hurt). Anahuac used to run "marsh buggy" tours to see rails in the winter. More

Breeding distribution of the Yellow Rail in the United States and Canada. Shaded area represents the estimated breeding area. Map adapted from Bookhout 1995. - Keys to management include protecting existing wetlands; controlling encroachment of woody vegetation in wet meadows; maintaining standing water in wet meadows, quaking bogs, and fens; and maintaining a dense layer of residual vegetation. More

Features: The Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) is seldom seen, as it lives deep in the reeds and marshes of shallow wetlands. In the breeding season, males can be heard giving their distinct clicking sounds which sound like two stones being banged together. Birdwatchers will use pebbles to imitate the call and attract rails out to the edge of the reeds where they can be briefly observed. More

Yellow Rail - Definition = Yellow Rail Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae Genus: Coturnicops Species: noveboracensis Binomial name Coturnicops noveboracensis More

Yellow Rail Habitat Model go to: USFWS Gulf of Maine Watershed Habitat Analysis go to: Species Table Draft Date: October 2002 Species: Yellow rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis Use of Study Area Resources: Reproduction, migration: Yellow rails are widely distributed across most states in the the continental U.S. and Canadian provinces east of the Rockies (Bookhout 1995). More

Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis, a State Threatened bird, is a rare migrant as well as a rare summer resident in both the north and east of Wisconsin. Yellow Rails are approximately the size of a sparrow, about 6-7 inches long. They have short bills and are a deep tawny-yellow in color with dark stripes crossed by white bars. In flight, the yellow rail is the only rail with a white patch on the trailing edge of each wing. More

Yellow rails are a bit enigmatic in Ohio. They are rare, but undoubtedly more pass through than is suspected. Peak fall migration is early October. More

Yellow Rails breed in the northern Great Plains and winter along the southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Several migration records in the Great Plains are from specimens collected after collisions with radio and television towers. More

Yellow Rail - Huntington Valley, Montgomery County; October 19, 2007. Photos by Howard Eskin. The Yellow Rail in these photos struck a window. Although still alive after the initial impact, it later died at a rehabilitation center. The bird was added to the specimen collection at The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. More

A vivid recital of a calling Yellow Rail near Noel in 1938 comes from Colin Faulkner (letter to R.W. Tufts, 30 July 1938): "Many people in this countryside, both nature lovers and the superstitious, are interested at present in a weird sound moving about on the surface of a swamp or salt marsh and nearby uplands. No one has been able to see the bird or insect or what-not that produces the sound. More

99), with white fan standards and three orange and yellow rails, is made of all wood and is easily assembled with magnets."Oh what fun it is to ride ..." by USA Today (Magazine)A little more than 640 million baht will be sought to fund a design study of parts of the Pink and Yellow rail schemes, he said.Thailand: Ministry says its plan for rail line is on the right track by TendersInfoThe yellow rail is the source of an unusual night noise that can be heard around wetlands. More

Jim Petranka photographed this Yellow Rail on 28 April 2006. The bird was found in a mowed hayfield one mile from Rutherfordton, North Carolina by an unknown person who thought it was an injured Bobwhite and took to a wildlife rehabber. The bird was found to be in good health and possibly just fatigued. It was given to Dr. Jim Petranka, biology professor at UNC-Asheville, who took this picture and then released the bird at a marsh in an undisclosed location. More

The Yellow Rail is much sought after by birdwatchers. Image of a yellow rail - Distribution - Yellow Rails occur only in North America, primarily in Canada and the northern United States, with very limited distribution in northern Mexico. Their main breeding grounds in Canada are on James Bay and western Hudson Bay. More

Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis Order GRUIFORMES – Family RALLIDAE Issue No. 139 Authors: Bookhout, Theodore A. * Articles * Multimedia * References Courtesy Preview This Introductory article that you are viewing is a courtesy preview of the full life history account of this species. The remaining articles (Distribution, Habitat, Behavior, etc. More