If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Sora (Porzana carolina)


11/6/04 Audubon field trip with Dan Cooper. Ballona Wetlands, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Sora

SPECIES: Porzana carolina

LIFE LIST DATE: 11/6/2004

LOCATION: Ballona wetlands, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region

IDENTIFYING MARKS & BEHAVIOR: 9"; Small, brownish, chicken like bird; black face and upper throat; bright yellow bill. Back is dark brown with fine white streaks; belly is gray with dark barring. In winter, gray edges to face and throat feathers hide the black markings in these spots. Feeds in the water and on the ground, eating aquatic insects and weed seeds. 

VOICE: A common call is a plaintive ascending puweee puweee, also gives call like a descending whinny that slows down near the end. 
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