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Location: Sydney, Australia

Gallinula tenebrosa

[edit] Identification

Very similar to Common Moorhen but differ in having red legs (sometimes only above the knee) in the adult and in lacking the white flank stripe.

[edit] Distribution

Borneo, through Indonesia to New Guinea and Australia (including Tasmania).

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies¹

• G. t. frontata - SE Borneo to Sulawesi, s Moluccas, L Sundas, se New Guinea
• G. t. neumanni - N New Guinea
• G. t. tenebrosa - Locally in sw and e Australia and Tasmania

[edit] Habitat

Lowlands.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes plants and insects.

Its bulky nest is placed at the water's edge; 5-18 whitish eggs are laid.

[edit] References

1. Clements James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Wikipedia

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