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Coturnicops noveboracensis (Yellow Rail)

Synonyms: Fulica noveboracensis
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) is a small secretive marsh bird, of the family Rallidae.
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Infraspecies

Coturnicops noveboracensis goldmani
Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.17655
EDGE Score: 2.32009
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  53 grams
Birth Weight [3]  6.5 grams
Female Weight [5]  52 grams
Male Weight [5]  59 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  13.5 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Coastal saltmarshes, Freshwater marshes, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  30 %
Forages - Understory [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  40 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  30 %
Clutch Size [6]  8
Fledging [1]  35 days
Incubation [5]  17 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Migration [7]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0