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Yellow Rail

Coturnicops noveboracensis

This small, thick-bodied rail is highly secretive. It breeds in central and eastern Canada in grassy marshes and damp fields, but is not found in wetlands with deep water. In winter, it travels to the south-eastern US.

   
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