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Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia, Brazil, March 2003

Porphyrio flavirostris

[edit] Identification

• Pale greenish-yellow bill and frontal shield
• Greenish-blue wing coverts
• Brown back and tail
• White throat and underparts
• Yellow legs.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Argentina and Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species.^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Freshwater marshes with floating vegetation, also marshy river and lakeside edges.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes invertebrates, insects and seeds taken from water and vegetation.

[edit] Breeding

The nest is an open leafy cup hidden in dense marshy vegetation. The four or five eggs are incubated by both adults.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibirds

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds