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Yellow Rail 1998 Apr-Jun Juniata 1 on 5/18 on an Amish farm was the first Pennsylvania record in many years. See the Juniata report in Notes from the Field for details
Yellow Rail 2002 Aug-Nov Bucks 1 from 10/2-10/4 (no desc )
Yellow Rail 2002 Aug-Nov McKean 1 on 10/6 at Bullis Mills (Dave Wilton and Ben Coulter). Documentation has been submitted to PORC
Yellow Rail 2003 Aug-Nov McKean 10/5 Bullis Mills Swamp (J Fedak)
Yellow Rail 2006 Aug-Nov Bucks One was flushed at Pine Run on 10/31 (August Mirabella). It was also flushed 11/5 (Ken Reiker Devich Farbotnik video) and last reported 11/7 (Mike Homel). This is only the 4th report since 1950 but the 2nd since 2002.
Yellow Rail 2007 Aug-Nov Bucks one at Pine Run Dam 9/22 was the fifth for the county and third since 2002 (Ken Rieker, under PORC review).
Yellow Rail 2007 Aug-Nov Luzerne one flushed at Mountain Top 10/6 (Rick Koval, doc submitted).
Yellow Rail 2007 Mar-May Cumberland one in an overgrown field on private property near Messiah College 3/15 (Cameron Rutt Adam Stuckert Jarrod Derr).
Yellow Rail 2011 Mar-May Westmoreland one at a marsh on the Little Sewickley Creek Trail 5/14 (Jim Pemberton, no doc).
Yellow Rail 2012 Mar-May Philadelphia late report of a window-killed bird at Temple University 10/11/2011 (Keith Russell, specimen at the Academy of Natural Sciences).
Yellow Rail 2012 Aug-Nov Somerset one at Lake Somerset 10/6 (Mike Lanzone, no doc)
Yellow Rail 2012 Aug-Nov Washington one at Greencove Wetlands 10/5-6 (Dave Wilton, Shannon Thompson, et al., doc submitted).
Yellow Rail 2020 Aug-Nov Chester one juv. found pre-dawn using thermal imaging at ChesLen Preserve 10/7 (ph. Ross Gallardy, doc submitted).
Yellow Rail 2021 Mar-May Bucks one in field in Milford Twp. 5/1 (Kevin Willauer, fide Devich Farbotnik), photo in ebird, sixth county record.
Yellow Rail 2021 Aug-Nov Somerset one on Amish farm 9/21-27 (fide Jeff Payne, no doc).