The summer diet of the Yellow Rail in southern Quebec.

Wilson Bulletin | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

The Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) is one of North America's least studied birds (Bookhout 1995, Robert 1997). Many reports state that snails are the principal food taken by this bird (Peabody in Bent 1926, Walkinshaw 1939, Stalheim 1974:8, Ripley 1977, Bookhout 1995). Only Martin et al. (1951), Easterla (1962), Stalheim (1974), and Martin and Perry (1981) published quantitative information on the diet of wild-caught Yellow Rails, and their results refer to only 20 or so individuals, many of which were collected during migration or in winter. Moreover, a portion of ...

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