Purple Swamphen: Wading

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Cranes (Gruiformes)

Family:

Rails (Rallidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio (Porphyrio) porphyrio melanotus)

This Photo:

Wading

Synonyms:

Porphyrio melanotus, Porphyrio melanotus ssp melanotus or Porphyrio porphyrio ssp melanotus

Other names:

Australian Swamphen or Australasian Swamphen

Thank you Bradley W. Jones for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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