Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yellow Rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis, is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. Adults have brown upperparts streaked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a light belly and barred flanks. The short thick dark bill turns yellow in males during the breeding season. The feathers on the back are edged with white. There is a yellow brown band over the eye and the legs are greenish-yellow. Their breeding habitat is wet meadows and shallow marshes across Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States and the entire northern US-Canadian border Great Plains to the Great Lakes. A small population may exist in northern Mexico. The nest is a shallow cup built with marsh vegetation on damp ground under a canopy of dead plants. The Yellow Rail migrates to the southeastern coastal United States.