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Sora Porzana carolina
Identification Tips:
Length: 6.75 inches Wingspan: 12.5 inches
Fairly small, chunky, short-tailed, round-winged, ground-dwelling marsh bird
Short, thick bill
Most often seen walking, rarely flies ...
Sora
Porzana carolina
The Sora (Porzana carolina) is a small rail which may be found across much of the North American continent.
Sora: Small rail with dark gray-brown upperparts with black-and-white streaks. Breast is gray and flanks and belly are dark gray with white bars. Gray head has a darker crown and nape, and black face, chin, and throat. Bill is yellow with dark tip.
Sora Behaviour
No observations regarding Sora behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Soras ...
The sora eats seeds, insects and snails.
Life Cycle Soras form breeding pairs in the early spring. Both the male and the female will preen for each other during courtship. The female sora lays 6-15 eggs in a cup of cattails and dead leaves.
Sora
(Porzana carolina)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Likely but not confirmed
1997 to 2001: Likely but not confirmed
2002 to 2006: Likely but not confirmed ...
Sora
Porzana carolina (Linnaeus)
Status Uncommon in summer, very rare in winter. Breeds. This is the most frequently encountered rail in Nova Scotia. It normally first appears in April (average 26 April, earliest 8 April).
Sora
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American wetland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
Sora Porzana carolina
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Sora Rail, Carolina Rail, Sora Crake
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
THE SORA RAIL.
[Sora.]
ORTYGOMETRA CAROLINUS, Linn.
[Porzana carolinus.] ...
Sora Porzana carolina Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1) Norman Bateman 2) Elaine R Wilson at the Birding Center, Port Aransas, Texas
Genus Rallus ...
Sora females begin construction of saucer-shaped nests on the ground or on a platform over shallow water at the start of egg laying [12,34].
SORA: The Searchable Online Research Archive (SORA) has decades worth of archives of the following journals: The Auk, Condor, Journal of Field Ornithology, North American Bird Bander, Studies in Avian Biology, Pacific Coast Avifauna, ...
Sora Porzana carolina. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall in Gulf Coast region. In Mountain and Inland Coastal Plain regions, uncommon in winter and uncommon to rare in spring and fall.
Sora
Spring Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Chipping Sparrow
Spring Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
The above link from SORA describes the reproductive cycle in American Coots. Page 389 covers the care and development of the young coot. When the young coot is six hours old, it is quite buoyant and will climb in and out of the nest.
Porzana carolina - Sora Rail
Crex
Crex crex - Corn Crake
Gallinula
Gallinula chloropus - Moorhen, Common Gallinule
Gallinula martinica - American Purple Gallinule
Porphyrula
Porphyrula alleni - Allen's Gallinule
Fulica ...
They may be divided into two major types: the long-billed rails, which include the Virginia (Rallus limicola), king, clapper, and water rails; and those with short, conical bills, including the sora (Porzana carolina), yellow, ...
Page 1: Waterfowl to Shorebirds, covering: Ross's Goose and Snow Goose, male Mountain Quail, American Bittern, Clapper Rail, Sora Rail, Baird's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Long-billed Curlew, ...
One of the main sources of information about this species is the article by Cristián Estades in the Wilson Bulletin, 108(2), 1996, pp. 268-279. available at SORA.
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Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
Sora (Porzana carolina)
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) ...
 See also: Purple, Coot, Virginia Rail, Moorhen, Eagle
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