Soras spend most of the year in freshwater and brackish wetlands with cattail, sedges, and rushes. During migration and winter, they also use wet pastures, ditches, impoundments, and flooded fields.

What do Sora's eat?

Mostly seeds, insects, snails. At least at some seasons, feeds mainly on seeds, including those of smartweeds, sedges, grasses, other marsh plants. May feed heavily on wild rice in late summer and fall. Also eats a wide variety of insects, snails, other aquatic invertebrates.

Is Sora a bird?

(California does not consider Sora game birds, so they cannot be legally hunted here.) Although the North American Breeding Bird Survey 1966-2014 concludes that its numbers are stable, the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan lists it as a Species of High Concern.