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Sora
Porzana carolina
32.2787, -111.022
Field Notes
Description:
8-10" (20-25 cm). A quail-sized rail with short yellow bill, gray breast, and black face. Upperparts mottled brown; lower abdomen banded with black and white. Young birds in fall lack black face and have buff breast.
Habitat:
Sweetwater Wetlands
Notes:
A small, secretive bird of freshwater marshes, the Sora is the most common and widely distributed rail in North America. Its distinctive descending whinny call can be easily heard from the depths of the cattails, but actually seeing the little marsh-walker is much more difficult.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2014
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