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.
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.
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