Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Sora

Porzana carolina

Description:

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.

Habitat:

South Pond of Lincoln Park in Chicago. On the southern end of the east side there are a a bunch of reeds (right across from the cows at the zoo).

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

1 Comment

DavidMroczkowski
DavidMroczkowski 11 years ago

great!

Kymberlee Ricke
Spotted by
Kymberlee Ricke

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Spotted on May 4, 2012
Submitted on May 5, 2012

Related Spottings

Polluela pintoja (Spotted crake) Spotted Crake Sora Spotted Crake

Nearby Spottings

Spotting American Bullfrog Common Yellowthroat Eastern Cottontail
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team