Bird

Sora

Porzana carolina

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in all 133 counties and cities, across 12 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 12

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: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: All 133 counties and cities
Habitats: 12
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Virginia 12

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

1 of 12

WinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal WetlandDune grassland. Shown: Core Banks, Cape Lookout, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Core Banks dunes, June 2013, Jarek Tuszyński, June 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source record.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin; Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and BaygallDense low pocosin. Shown: Shaken Creek Preserve, Pender and Onslow Counties, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Dense low pocosin, Robert Thornhill, undated. CC BY 4.0. Source record.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal pond margins, Florida and Louisiana to North Carolina; state not identified, a neighboring state.Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt MarshBrackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. Source record.

SummerWinterSouth-Central Interior Small Stream and RiparianNamed place / source context. Shown: Watauga Falls, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Watauga Falls, Illustrator/engraver not confidently attributed; reproduced in Zeigler and Grosscup, The Heart of the Alleghanies (1883), 1883. Public domain. Source record.

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Wooded Swamp; Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood ForestNamed place / source context. Shown: Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, as titled by Museum of Fine Arts Boston; nineteenth-century artistic interpretation, a neighboring state.View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux, 1850. Public domain. Source record.

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.

WinterAtlantic 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

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerWinterSouth-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Freshwater tidal marshes

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

SummerWinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline 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 (85)

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

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.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter, beside its main habitat.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Winter, beside its main habitat.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland 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 Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer.
Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
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.
Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer.
South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
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.
East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet 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.
Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore 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 - 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.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.