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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 farmerâs 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.

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio Porphyrio) in wetland, Wakodahatchee wetland, Florida, USA.

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

The purple swamphen Feeding in Sunrise

$Names: Australasian Swamphen, South-west Pacific Swamphen, Pukeko\nScientific name: Porphyrio melanotus\nCountry: New Zealand\nLocation: Lake Rotorua$

Pukeko bird mother feeding baby pukeko with nature green background. Western Springs park, Auckland.

Western Swamphen, aka Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, fka Purple Gallinule, wading among vegetation at the side of a lagoon in Coto Doñana, southern Spain.

Walking Eurasian Coot on surface level.

Pukeko gathering food in the Park

Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) foraging in wetland, Wakodahatchee wetland, Florida.

Common Gallinule at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.

Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), a beautiful interesting wetland bird. Colorful bird, blue with red beak with nice green and orange background photographed in the evening sun.

Pretty Moorhen wading quickly across an overgrown pond.

Western swamphen or Purple Moorhen or Porphyrio porphyrio

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

A pair of Pukeko or swamp hen with its red bill foraging in reeds on water edge

Saddle-billed stork in the Kruger National Park.

a non-passerine bird found in swamps etc in the Australasian region

Purple gallinule,

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.

Western swamphen in Llobregat delta channel, in a channel near aeroport. El Prat de Llobregat

This set of images of birds os from West - Northwest India, mostly Gujarat, and contains a mix of aquatic birds (pelicans, storks, cormorants, herons, waterfowl, waders, snipes, rails and crakes etc) as well as a few raptors (hawks/buzzard, falcons), and a few small birds (passerines etc). Includes flight, feeding, perched images and several in low shutter speed. There are also some images of birds in landfill sites and polluted waters. Each image is individually captioned and includes species name.

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

Grey-headed swamphen

Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) on a Winter riverbank.

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), or Purple Swamphen. Auckland, New Zealand.

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

$Taxon name: Tasmanian Native-hen\nTaxon scientific name: Tribonyx mortierii\nLocation: Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia$

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