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, with a short thick yellow bill. 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 and the northeastern United States. 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.

These birds migrate to the southeastern coastal United States.

They mainly eat insects, snails and seeds.