#1123 · 🐦 birds

Sora

🇳🇱 Soraral ·Porzana carolina

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Don Loarie · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Don Sutherland · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Becky Matsubara · CC BY 4.0
4. © Dario Taraborelli · CC0
5. © Stephen Weddle · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Becky Matsubara · CC BY 4.0
7. Bay Trail, Oakland, CA, US:© Matthew Dodder · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Arrowhead Marsh, Oakland, CA, USA:© Vinayak Hebbagil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. River Valley Whitemud, Edmonton, AB, Canada:© whitemudwayne · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

The sora ( Porzana carolina ) is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail or sora crake. The genus name Porzana is derived from Venetian terms for small rails, and Carolina refers to the Carolina Colony. "Sora" is probably taken from a Native American language.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,034iNaturalist observations
weight 8.9 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
16,034 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 9 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).