Bird Photographs  by  John Van de Graaff

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Sora
(Porzana carolina)

A characteristically secretive member of the rail family, Soras are more often heard than seen, along the edges of marshes. This bird was unusually venturesome, at Newport Back Bay in Southern California, in February 2004.

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