: a small short-billed North American rail (Porzana carolina) common in marshes
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Read full article Bristol County: Two Mississippi kitesin North Dighton, a sora and a white-rumped sandpiper at Gooseberry Neck in Westport along with a sooty shearwater offshore there, and a Louisiana waterthrush at the Horton Street Swamp in Dighton.
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BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
In Northampton’s East Meadows, there was a sora, a dickcissel, and a yellow-headed blackbird.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
Plymouth County: three sandhill cranes and a sora at Burrage Pond Wildlife Area in Hanson, and a peregrine falcon at Duxbury Beach.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
Reports included a Virginia rail, a sora, a yellow-breasted chat and a clay-colored sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher in the Belle Isle Cemetery in East Boston.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2021
Observers also spotted a least bittern, a sora, and an alder flycatcher at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
In Fairhaven, there were reports of a sora, two stilt sandpipers, and an American oystercatcher, and in Dartmouth, a yellow-throated warbler was discovered on private property.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
Observers spotted an alder flycatcher, a sora, and a least bittern at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
In Deerfield, a sora and three marsh wrens were tallied.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
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BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
In Northampton’s East Meadows, there was a sora, a dickcissel, and a yellow-headed blackbird.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
Plymouth County: three sandhill cranes and a sora at Burrage Pond Wildlife Area in Hanson, and a peregrine falcon at Duxbury Beach.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
Reports included a Virginia rail, a sora, a yellow-breasted chat and a clay-colored sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher in the Belle Isle Cemetery in East Boston.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2021
Observers also spotted a least bittern, a sora, and an alder flycatcher at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
In Fairhaven, there were reports of a sora, two stilt sandpipers, and an American oystercatcher, and in Dartmouth, a yellow-throated warbler was discovered on private property.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
Observers spotted an alder flycatcher, a sora, and a least bittern at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
In Deerfield, a sora and three marsh wrens were tallied.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
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