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) [XC807518]
by Whitney Neufeld-Kaiser from Ross Township (near Ross), Butler County, Ohio, United States (song)
Sora (Porzana carolina) [XC342381]
by Karsten Molv\u00e6rsmyr from Clay Island, Lake Apopka Restoration Area, Lake County, Florida, United States (call)