• BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

    Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
Purple Gallinule or Grey Headed Swamphen
W

Purple Gallinule or Grey Headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)

Habitat
Purple Gallinules inhabit freshwater marshes, mostly places that hold water year-round and that have sedges, grasses, and rushes and especially also dense stands of emergent floating vegetation such as American lotus, water shield, spatterdock, pickerel weed, arrowhead, water pennywort, and various water lilies.
Location
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida
Date taken
1/6/21
Scientific name
Porphyrio poliocephalus
  • Like
Reactions: Deb Burhinus
A wonderful study in a lovely setting and with great detail.
 
Staff member
Opus Editor
Supporter
Yeah... Purple Gallinule was split a few years ago, Porphyrio martinica became Purple Gallinule.

Grey-headed Gallinule (Porphyrio poliocephalus), is the Indian species, however there is an introduced population of them in Florida. This bird of yours would appear to be that species.

That's a tremendous picture you've taken of him too Windoze, showing his beautiful colouration. Many thanks for showing him to us.
 

Media information

Category
North America
Added by
windoze
Date added
View count
90
Comment count
4

Image metadata

Device
SONY DSC-RX10M4
Aperture
ƒ/4
Focal length
189.7 mm
Exposure time
1/250
ISO
250
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
97CADF03-A042-4065-B4BA-96D91AD14353_1_201_a.jpeg
File size
3.4 MB
Date taken
Wed, 06 January 2021 5:19 PM
Dimensions
3718px x 2788px

Share this media

Top