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

Purple Gallinule ( Porphyrio martinicus ) in Everglades National Park, Florida

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.

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.

The purple swamphen Feeding in Sunrise

A Grey-headed swamphen walking on the leaves of Thalangama Lake Sri Lanka.

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

Close-up of a Dusky Moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) feeding its chick, on a pond, in Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia; with ripples and reflections on the water.

two male Eurasian coots (Fulica atra) fighting over a female in a pond

Purple Gallinule ( Porphyrio martinicus ) in Everglades National Park, Florida

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

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

Western swamphen or Purple Moorhen or Porphyrio porphyrio

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

Grey-headed swamphen

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A close-up of a purple gallinule (Porphyrio Martinica) wading through water in the Everglades

Photograph of a blue Australasian Swamphen bird looking for food while walking on green grass in the Blue Mountains in NSW, Australia.

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

Grey-headed swamphen at Chorakhe Mak Reservoir (No Hunting Area ) , Buriram Province , Thailand

This is a photograph of a purple gallinule bird walking on top of water lilies covering the water’s surface in Everglades National Park, Florida.

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

Walking Eurasian Coot on surface level.

A Swamp hen or Pukeko wades in estuary mudflats with shellfish in its beak

A Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) stands in the water in search of food. The natural environment around Dal Lake, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

A Grey-headed Swamphen in the amazing reserve of Green Cay wetlands in Florida.

Purple Swamphen perched on a log

Purple Gallinule (porphrio martinicus) foraging in a messy wetland

common moorhen is looking for food close-up

Pretty Moorhen wading quickly across an overgrown pond.

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