Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Coturnicops
- eBird Code
- yelrai
Vocalizations
Dan MacNeal · CC_BY_4_0
Dustin Snider · CC_BY_4_0
Adam Jackson · CC0_1_0
Subspecies (2)
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Coturnicops noveboracensis goldmani
known only from marshes near Río Lerma (central Mexico); extinct (last reported in the early 1960s)
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Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis
breeds locally in marshes of central and eastern Canada and northern USA, and very locally southeastern Oregon and northern California; winters to southeastern USA
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.