Bird

Sora

Porzana carolina

A winter visitor to Florida, found in all 67 counties and 14 habitats.

Here: Winter and on migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 14

Adult Sora, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) John Rosford, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 346197100. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter and on migration
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 67 counties
Habitats: 14
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Florida 14

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 14

WinterSouth Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh; Floridian Highlands Freshwater MarshRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded SwampRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland; East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

WinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

SummerWinter

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

SummerWinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Mangrove swamps

Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.

Winter

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Pocosins and bay forests

Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Other habitats in its models (78)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.

Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Unconsolidated Shore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Temperate Pacific Intertidal Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Mudflat Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Winter, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Columbia Basin Palouse Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
California Mesic Serpentine Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
California Northern Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Winter, beside its main habitat.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
North Pacific Intertidal Freshwater Wetland Summer.
North American Arid West Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer and winter.
Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
Inter-Mountain Basins Interdunal Swale Wetland Summer and winter.
North Pacific Bog and Fen Summer.
Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer.
Mediterranean California Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer and winter.
Mediterranean California Serpentine Fen Summer and winter.
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter.
Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer.
Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer.
Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer and winter.
Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Northern California Claypan Vernal Pool Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
Inter-Mountain Basins Alkaline Closed Depression Summer and winter.
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter.
California Central Valley Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter, beside its main habitat.
North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Winter, beside its main habitat.
South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.