Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).
Vagrant to France, Greenland, Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
South-eastern Alaska, Canada and USA. Winters from southern USA, Mexico and West Indies south to central Peru and east to the Guianas.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Sora (Porzana carolina) [XC749975]
by Manuel Grosselet from Laguna de Chignahuapan (Ci\u00e9nagas del Lerma). Almoloya del R\u00edo, State of Mexico, Mexico (call)
Sora (Porzana carolina) [XC656415]
by Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser from Mary Ann Creek Road, Okanogan Co., Washington, United States (call, whinny)