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Article: Winter ecology of Yellow Rails based on South Carolina specimens.(SHORT COMMUNICATIONS)(Report)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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The Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) has been studied in breeding areas (Peabody 1922, Terrill 1943, Stalheim 1974, Anderson 1977, Bookhout and Stenzel 1987, Gibbs et al. 1991, Robert and Laporte 1999, Popper and Stern 2000, Robert et al. 2000) and in captivity (Stalheim 1975). Historically, migratory populations of the Yellow Rail occupied a discontinuous breeding range from the Northwestern Territories to New Brunswick, Canada, south to the latitudes of Connecticut and Oregon, USA (Bookhout 1995), and wintered primarily on the coastal plain from North Carolina to Texas. Most information about the species in winter is from studies conducted on the Gulf coast of ...