Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)
Brazil
The Purple Gallinule is distributed from the USA through Central America and the Caribbean into most of South America as far south as northern Argentina.
Purple gallinule Porphyrula martinica
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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Purple Gallinule.]
GALLINULA MARTINICA, Linn.
[Porphyrula martinica.] ...
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.
Purple gallinule
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not listed
Pygmy marmoset ...
Purple Gallinules inhabit shallow freshwater wetlands with floating vegetation. They usually nest over water and build a ramp from the nest down to floating vegetation.
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.
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 ...
American Purple Gallinule, Porphyrio martinica
Azure Gallinule, Porphyrio flavirostris
Common Moorhen, or Common Gallinule, Gallinula chloropus ...
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.
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.
They are also called the Purple Swamp Hen or Purple Gallinule although they are not really purple at all but, for the most part, a deep almost iridescent indigo blue.
Gallinula martinica - American Purple Gallinule
Porphyrula
Porphyrula alleni - Allen's Gallinule
Fulica
Fulica americana - American Coot, Common Coot
Fulica cristata - Crested Coot
Gruidae - Cranes
Grus ...
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
King Rail (Rallus elegans)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica)
Sora (Porzana carolina)
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola)
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) ...
The common American gallinule, Gallinula chloropus, and the similar Eurasian moorhen are drab in color; the gaudier purple gallinule, Porphyrula martinica, found from Texas to Ecuador, has blue-green plumage and yellow legs.
 See also: Gallinule, Purple, Martin, Moorhen, Oyster
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