Gallinule
Gallinule is a common name that refers the following rails, amongst others:
Purple Swamphen, or Purple Gallinule, also known as the Sultana Bird, Porphyrio porphyrio ...
Gallinule Photo Gallery
Gallinule photos taken from a stream in Kailua, Hawaii.
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Gallinule
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see rail.
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Rail - common name for some members of the large family Rallidae, marsh birds that include the gallinule and the coot, two specialized rails.
Azure Gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris)
(aka Porphyrula flavirostris) ...
Purple Gallinule
Porphyrula martinica (Linnaeus)
Status Rare vagrant. The first occurrence was a specimen taken near Halifax on 30 January 1869 (Jones 1870); Piers (1897) mentions three other nineteenth-century specimens.
Purple Gallinule
Last updated 3/12/96
The Purple Gallinule is a common spring and summer breeding resident on the UTC. Adult birds are unmistakable.
Purple gallinule Porphyrula martinica
Identification Tips:
Length: 10.5 inches Wingspan: 21 inches
Fairly large, duck-like waterbird with short wings and a short tail
Very short, thick bill
Frequently seen both swimming and walking ...
PURPLE GALLINULE.
[Purple Gallinule.]
GALLINULA MARTINICA, Linn.
[Porphyrula martinica.] ...
The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) occurs in fresh water marshes in the southeastern United States and parts of Mexico. Its extremely long toes allow it to walk across floating vegetation with ease.
Gallinules, when young, crawl on bushes and out of the nest using tiny claws on their wing tips.
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Gallinule's long toes make it possible to walk on lily pads - one of the few birds able to do so! ...
Purple Gallinule: Medium-sized, chicken-like marsh bird with purple-blue upperparts washed with iridescent green, and deep blue underparts. Forehead is pale blue; bill is red and yellow-tipped. Undertail coverts are solid white.
Rails, Gallinules, Coots
Photographs on this page courtesy of SFWMD
American Coots are found in fresh- and saltwater wetlands. They usually nest over water, often building numerous nests and using only one. They are quite territorial and noisy.
Diet The purple gallinule eats a wide variety of foods including frogs, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders and water plants.
Life Cycle Female purple gallinules lay six to ten eggs in a nest of dead tree stems and leaves.
American Purple Gallinule videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Stamps (for Antigua, Bahamas, Barbuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, El Salvador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Paraguay, St.
This Gallinule prefers fresh water marshes and seldom resorts to salt water. Not considered a migratory bird, this species flies very well whenever it has occasion to rise from the ground.
Gallinule, Purple aka American Purple Gallinule Porphyrula martinica Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1, 2) Bob Blanchard in Florida
3) Michael J Thompson at Everglades National Park 4) Muriel Kerr
5) Paul S.
Purple gallinule
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not listed
Pygmy marmoset ...
Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica. Breeder. Uncommon in summer and uncommon to rare in spring and fall in Inland Coastal Plain and Gulf Coast regions. Occasional in spring in Mountain and Tennessee Valley regions.
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (RALLIDAE)
Limpkins (ARAMIDAE)
Cranes (GRUIDAE)
Plovers, Sandpipers, and Allies (CHARADRIIFORMES) ...
Purple Gallinule
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Laughing Gallinule. Ever since I heard that name I have liked it.
@Jochen, you'd be surprised at how common this moorhen can be. Finding one in the northeast in summer has never been a problem.
A new flightless gallinule (Aves: Rallidae: Gallinula) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia
A new generic synonym in the Australian Lucanidae (Coleoptera) ...
Breeding status of the purple gallinule, brown creeper, and Swainson's warbler in Illinois. The Wilson Bulletin. 84(2): 208-210. [62505] 24. Graves, Gary R. 1996.
The Takahe is a large member of the family Rallidae closely related to the Purple Gallinule. It is flightless and before the arrival of introduced predators it was widespread over both the north and south islands.
In America the Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) was called the Common Gallinule, or Florida Gallinule, until about 1983 when we adopted the English common name for this worldwide species.
The Common Moorhen, or Common Gallinule, (Gallinula chloropus) is a bird in the Rallidae family with an almost worldwide distribution. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands.
Gruiformes (Ralliformes) (cranes, hemipodes, gallinules)
Rallidae
Rallus philippensis. Banded rail
Rallus pectoralis. Auckland Island rail
Gallirallus australis. Weka (endemic)
Porzana tabuensis. Spotless crake
Porzana pusilla.
Members of the crane family include limpkins, rails, gallinules and coots.
Cranes are birds of open country, marshes, meadows, prairies, and
tundra.
They feed on small animals and vegetable matter.
Holliman, D. C. 1977. Rails and gallinules. Pages 118-121 in G. C. Sanderson, editor. Management of migratory shore and upland game birds in North America. International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Washington, D.C.
Taylor, B. 1998. Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, and Coots of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Birds ...
The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules.
Hummingbirds
Lapwings, Plovers
Pigeons, Doves
Parakeets, Macaws, Parrots
Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, Quail
Rails, Gallinules, Coots
Owls, Nightjars
Birds-of-Prey, Vultures
Non-Passerines: Water ...
White gallinule (Porphyrio albus )
Northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii)
Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
Mount Glorious torrent frog (Taudactylus diurnus)
Southern gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus silus) ...
Bird Confusion: Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
Sora (Porzana carolina)
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) ...
The moorhen stands erect on large yellow legs and feet. Each leg has a red band above the upper joint just below the feathers. The feature that distinguishes it from other gallinules is the bright red shield on the face between the eyes.
 See also: Oriole, Nightjar, Flycatcher, Parakeet, Macaw
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