Sexes are similar, but young soras lack the black facial markings and have a whitish face and buff breast. They have a short thick yellow bill, with black markings on the face at the base of the bill and on the throat. Description Īdult soras are 19–30 cm (7.5–11.8 in) long, with dark-marked brown upperparts, a blue-grey face and underparts, and black and white barring on the flanks. The species in monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. The common name "Sora" is probably taken from a Native American language. The genus name is derived from Venetian terms for small rails, the specific epithet refers to the Carolina Colony. The sora is now placed in the genus Porzana that was erected in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis-Pierre Vieillot. Linnaeus also cited Mark Catesby who had described the "soree" in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Linnaeus based his description on the "little American water hen" that George Edwards had described and illustrated in 1750 from a specimen collected near the Hudson Bay. He placed it with the rails in the genus Rallus and coined the binomial name Rallus carolinus. The sora was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. Call broadcasts can also increase the chances of seeing a sora, as they will often investigate the source of the call. The use of call broadcasts greatly increases the chances of hearing a sora. The call is a slow whistled ker-whee, or a descending whinny. They are fairly common, despite a decrease in suitable habitat in recent times. Although soras are more often heard than seen, they are sometimes seen walking near open water. They are omnivores, eating seeds, insects and snails. a streaked crown stripe, and a different wing pattern. However, the latter species always has spotting on the breast. Sora is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, where it can be confused with spotted crake.
They migrate to the southern United States and northern South America. Both parents incubate and feed the young, who leave the nest soon after they hatch and are able to fly within a month. The female usually lays 10 to 12 eggs, sometimes as many as 18, in a cup built from marsh vegetation. They nest in a well-concealed location in dense vegetation.
The sora's breeding habitat is marshes throughout much of North America. The common name "Sora" is probably taken from a Native American language.Īdult soras are 19–30 cm (7.5–11.8 in) long, with dark-marked brown upperparts, a blue-grey face and underparts, and black and white barring on the flanks. The genus name Porzana is derived from Venetian terms for small rails, and the specific carolina refers to the Carolina Colony. The sora ( Porzana carolina) is a small waterbird of the rail family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail or sora crake, that occurs throughout much of North America.
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