purple swamphen

This Purple Swamphen was captured in eastern Chitwan national park during the jeep safari. It is beautiful bird with purplish blue coloration, grey head and large bill. It is large bird of about 45 - 50 cm bird that is mainly winter visitor and passage migrant. It also breeds locally.

Image of a Purple Swamphen taken during our winter 2016 trip on the Northeast coast of Spain.

They love to hold their food in a foot.

Lovely seeing three of them together.

Sorry, sorry, sorry! I've fallen way behind on my BF browsing. It's because I've been trying very hard to catch up on a quilting project that I was a bit trepidatious about. Unthinkingly, one of the options I proposed to the person it's for involved a checked fabric as a background throughout...

Displaying its white tail feathers.

My other lifer from yesterday's hike. Now how to get there if you ever have a spare day - or even just a few hours - at the Barcelona Airport. From Terminal 1, follow the signs to the hotel shuttle bus pick-up area. If you're lucky, the long-term parking bus will give you a lift out to lot G...

These two seemed to getting on well together.

This a photo I took a couple of weeks ago at Tygum Park this purple swamphen was sunning those beautiful wings thanks Ken it was a senior moment wrote wrong name sorry friends.

A photo I took at Tygum Park of this beautiful purple swamphen who had found a seed I was amazed how those prehistoric looking claws could grip something so tiny, I changed the title Doc sorry it was confusing I meant awkward moment for me not the bird lol my camera would not focus took forever .

I have not been on BirdFrorum for some while, I am still having major computer problems. I may not be on again for some while.

This Swamphen join the female Mallard!!

Having a bit of a paddle in a muddy spot.

They are starting to appear.

Uploading from my mobile phone.

They use their feet to hold some foods. They are busy breeding at the present.

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I remember as a young man looking at these in my Birds of Britain and Europe bird guide and thinking how exotic they were. Here we see them so often they can be overlooked!

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Yesterdays Pukeko was joined by a second bird.

This birds posed so well with great lighting, so I just had to show this photograph.

Just taken this in a friends lifestyle field. There were 5 of them.