Bird
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 37 of 64 parishes and 5 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 37 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 37 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 5
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (38)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Winter.
- Florida Dry Prairie Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Recently Logged Areas Winter.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Winter.
- Recently Burned Winter.
- Recently Burned Forest Winter.
- Recently Burned Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Winter.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Winter.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 37 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 120
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Narrowleaf BluestemAndropogon perangustatus
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon tenuispatheus
- Longleaf Three-awnAristida palustris
- Arrowfeather Three-awnAristida purpurascens
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- White Doll's-daisyBoltonia asteroides
- Southern BluethreadBurmannia capitata
- Bearded Grass-pinkCalopogon barbatus
- Pale Grass-pinkCalopogon pallidus
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Carphephorus pseudoliatrisCarphephorus pseudoliatris
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
Wildlife 246
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Yellow Rail
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)




































