🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Sora live?

Porzana carolina has 995,504 records in 57 countries and territories, from 1823 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesGruiformesRallidaePorzana

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 790,981
Canada 163,496
Mexico 20,497
Colombia 2,293
Puerto Rico 2,283
Belize 2,031
Bermuda 1,844
Guatemala 1,408
Costa Rica 1,283
Cuba 1,209
Bahamas 779
CuraΓ§ao 708
Guadeloupe 665
Honduras 593
Ecuador 497
Aruba 496
Bonaire 464
Barbados 440
US Virgin Islands 339
United Kingdom 303
Nicaragua 271
Cayman Islands 261
Panama 254
Trinidad & Tobago 246
Jamaica 217
Norway 206
Venezuela 197
Dominican Republic 193
Grenada 121
Sweden 117
Portugal 102
Spain 99
Peru 83
Saint Martin 68
Antigua & Barbuda 60
El Salvador 53
Anguilla 50
Turks and Caicos Islands 49
St Kitts & Nevis 29
Martinique 27

Showing the top 40 of 57 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.