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Yellow Rail

Coturnicops noveboracensis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Rallidae

The yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) is a small secretive marsh bird of the family Rallidae that is found in North America. Taxonomy The yellow rail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the coots in the genus Fulica and coined the binomial name Fulica noveboracensis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 3,145Canada · 1,798