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Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis

 

6-8" (15-20 cm). A sparrow-sized rail. Brownish buff, with a short yellow bill and yellow feet. White wing patch shows in flight.… read more

Common Moorhen
Gallinula chloropus

 

13" (33 cm). Constantly bobs its head while swimming. Adult slate-gray, with conspicuous red frontal shield and red bill with yellow tip. White stripe on side; white undertail coverts. Young birds similar but duller, without colorful bill.… read more

Black Rail
Laterallus jamaicensis

 

5-6" (13-15 cm). A sparrow-sized rail. Black, with rusty nape, white flecks on back, black bill, and greenish legs and feet. Can be confused with downy black young of larger rails.… read more

Purple Gallinule
Porphyrula martinica

 

11-13" (28-33 cm). A strikingly colored, chicken-sized marsh bird. Purplish blue with green upperparts, white undertail coverts, yellowish-green legs, red-and-yellow bill, light blue frontal shield. Immature buffy-brown, with greenish wings, dark bill.… read more

Sora
Porzana carolina

 

8-10" (20-25 cm). A quail-sized rail with short yellow bill, gray breast, and black face. Upperparts mottled brown; lower abdomen banded with black and white. Young birds in fall lack black face and have buff breast.… read more

King Rail
Rallus elegans

 

15-19" (38-48 cm). Similar to the Clapper Rail of salt marshes but head, neck, shoulders, and underparts rusty. Flanks barred with black and white. Virginia Rail is smaller, with gray patch on face.… read more

Virginia Rail
Rallus limicola

 

9-11" (23-28 cm). A small rail with a long reddish bill, rusty underparts, barred flanks, and gray cheeks. Much larger King Rail has dark bill and buff or rusty cheeks. Late-summer young birds are similar to adults, but have blackish breasts and dark bills.… read more

Clapper Rail
Rallus longirostris

 

14-16" (36-41 cm). Long-billed, black-and-white barred flanks. Eastern populations, grayish brown without rusty underparts. Gulf Coast, Far West are rustier, do not show rust on shoulders or sides of face.… read more

California Clapper Rail
Rallus longirostris obsoletus

14-16" (36-41 cm). A reddish-brown, chickenlike saltmarsh bird with a long, slightly drooping bill and an often upturned tail. Light brownish with dark streaks above. Rust-colored breast; vertical gray and white bars on the flanks; white undertail coverts.… read more

Yuma Clapper Rail
Rallus longirostris yumanensis

14-16" (36-41 cm). A chickenlike marsh bird with a long, slightly drooping bill and an often upturned tail. Light brownish with dark streaks above. Rust-colored breast; bold, vertical gray and white bars on the flanks; white undertail coverts.… read more

Northern Jacana
Jacana spinosa

8-9" (20-23 cm). A dark, robin-sized marsh bird with very long toes. Head and neck black, body and folded wings dark rufous. Large, pale-green wing patches visible in flight; bright yellow frontal shield.… read more

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