Quote Originally Posted by Jessika
Aw poo, it won't load for me. Oh well, whatever he is, he's still just sitting there in the box not moving an inch.
I think it's a sora
Sora: Small rail with dark gray-brown upperparts with black-and-white streaks. Breast is gray and flanks and belly are dark gray with white bars. Gray head has a darker crown and nape, and black face, chin and throat. Bill is yellow with dark tip. Sexes are similar. Winter adult and juvenile are browner and have pale throats.

Sora: Breeds from southeastern Alaska, east to Newfoundland, and south locally to northwestern Baja California, southern New Mexico, eastern Colorado, southern Missouri, central Ohio, and Maryland. Spends winters regularly from central California, east to southern Texas and the Gulf coast, and south through Central America to portions of South America. Preferred habitats include freshwater marshes, flooded fields, swamps, and slough borders.
Length: 6.75 inches Wingspan: 12.5 inches
  • Fairly small, chunky, short-tailed, round-winged, ground-dwelling marsh bird
  • Short, thick bill
  • Most often seen walking, rarely flies
  • Often flicks and cocks short tail while walking, exposing white undertail coverts
  • Sexes similar
Adult bird:
  • Yellow bill
  • Black lores and throat (paler in basic plumage)
  • Blue-gray face, sides of neck, and breast
  • Brownish cap, nape, hindneck, back and upperwings
  • Whitish belly
  • Dark brown and white barring on flanks
Juvernille:



  • Pale yellowish bill
  • Buff-brown face, foreneck and breast; whitish throat
  • Brownish cap, nape, hindneck, back and upperwings
  • White spotting on back and upperwing coverts
  • Flanks less distinctly barred with white and dark brown


I may have recieved a glancing blow from a car and have a concussion, just put it in a boxcover it with a towel and leave it in a warm area with a small water bowl and see how it does.