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Pukeko, Western Springs, New Zealand
Purple Gallinule at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.
Domestic hen sized bird, shiny Purple in color with a red patch on the bald head and red beak with long red legs clumsily moving along the shore line or among the reeds. This is the Purple Moorhen. The male is a glistening purple color and the female is a little duller than the male with greyish-purple color. This bird can be seen clumsily moving around with calculated gait and the short stubby tail flicking at every step. It is a very shy bird and hides itself among the cat-tail reeds at the slightest disturbance. Pairs are often seen and sometimes a party of them can be seen foraging at close fields adjoining the swamps. It is in the group of Rails, and has the characters of all rails. Distribution is throughout the country and an interesting bird to study, which need lot of stealth. Sometimes these birds are very amusing to watch as they try to clamber up the reeds awkwardly. They forage on insects, mollusks, water beetles, and water-plant shoots. In their foraging sprees they sometimes invade the close by paddy fields and graze on the tender rice-shoots. This is not much of a problem as the farmer’s presence is enough to send them off scuttling for cover among the reeds. The courtship display is more like children playing catch-me-if-you-can game. Their calls are also amusing as they do not keep to any standard call sometimes cackling like hens, sometimes hooting, sometimes hissing and shrieking. The male is seen to entice a female by holding a piece of reed in his beaks and offering it to females. The nesting season is from June to September. The nest is large pad of reed leaves on a floating mass or hidden inside the reed beds. 3 to 6 eggs are laid with pale yellowish color and blotched or spotted with reddish brown. Whether both the sexes share all domestic duties is a thing to be studied and discovered.
Black background Takahe close up profile shot
Grey-headed swamphen
Western Swamphen, aka Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, fka Purple Gallinule, wading among vegetation at the side of a lagoon in Coto Doñana, southern Spain.
A Grey-headed swamphen walking on the leaves of Thalangama Lake Sri Lanka.
Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground
American Coot (Common Gallinule) in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists water bird walking in shallow water pond at Sydney park, Australia.
Taxon name: Tasmanian Native-hen\nTaxon scientific name: Tribonyx mortierii\nLocation: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The purple moor hen or Western swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India
Coot duck on the Vermillion Lakes in Banff National Park
purple swamphen bird with blue feathers (pond on the background)
A vibrant purple gallinule perches among the reeds and water lilies in the Florida Everglades. The bird’s striking blue feathers and red bill stand out against the lush green backdrop.
Purple swamphen Bird Hd Photo
A Pukeko survives on the island of Tiritiri Mantangi
A pair of Pukeko or swamp hen with its red bill foraging in reeds on water edge
Taxon name: Australasian Purple Swamphen\nTaxon scientific name: Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus\nLocation: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
The Great Rail or Purple Swamphen can usually be found in the larger marshes and reed areas of the lowlands. This bluish-purple, agile bird has a red beak and legs.
Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground
Grey-headed Swamphen (Porphyria poliocephalus) adult standing grassy marsh.\nSouth Andaman, Andaman Islands, India. November
A Purple Swamphen walking in the marsh, water's edge, looking for food. Green vegetations in the foreground, blue water background. Queensland, Australia
Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) walking accross in Cisarua, West Java, Indonesia
A Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, amongst the reeds in the shallow water in the morning sun.
A photo of purple gallinule bird in South Africa
A Grey-headed Swamphen in the amazing reserve of Green Cay wetlands in Florida.
Purple swamphen in gap in green water plants on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat Australia.
Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground
Purple Swamphen(Purple Gallinule) water bird
Taxon name: Tasmanian Native-hen\nTaxon scientific name: Tribonyx mortierii\nLocation: Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
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