Birds of the World

    GRUIFORMES: Rallidae (Rails, Crakes & Coots)  
Genus: Coturnicops (3 species)


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Swinhoe's Rail (Coturnicops exquisitus) Vulnerable
Range: PAL: e Siberia and ne China
 



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Speckled Rail (Coturnicops notatus)
Range: SA: Paraguay and s Brazil to ec Argentina
   


It is not known if this species, normally found in southeast South America, occasionally travels (migrates?) to northern South America (Cornell). For example there is a record from Colombia in 1959. Note dark color with white wingtips creating speckles on front and back.

Yellow Rail
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Range: NA: e, c
Smithsonian National Park, Washington DC, USA  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



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