Bird
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 17 of 82 counties and 6 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 17 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 6

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 17 of 82 counties
- Habitats
- 6
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Mississippi 6
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, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (36)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Mississippi.
- 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.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie 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.
- 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.
- 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 Mississippi
- Winter: does not nest here, in 17 of 82 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 136
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Carphephorus pseudoliatrisCarphephorus pseudoliatris
- LeConte's ThistleCirsium lecontei
- Toothache GrassCtenium aromaticum
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Naked Stem Witch GrassDichanthelium nudicaule
- Drosera tracyiDrosera tracyi
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Pineland BogbuttonsLachnocaulon digynum
- Panhandle LilyLilium iridollae
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Panicum tenerumPanicum tenerum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Largeleaf Grass-of-ParnassusParnassia grandifolia
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
Wildlife 232
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Mississippi. Not sighting records.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
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)



































