-
differentiates them from
similar species such as
common gallinules.
Immature purple gallinules are a brown-bronze color, with
purple feathers on chest...
-
includes some
smaller species of
gallinules which are
sometimes separated as
genus Porphyrula or
united with the
gallinules proper (or "moorhens") in Gallinula...
- species, but is
probably the
direct ancestor of some of today's
common gallinules. The
presence in the same
deposits of
fossils typical of the shorter-winged...
- a blue
frontal shield,
which is
green in the female.
Immature Allen's
gallinules are
sandy brown with a buff undertail. The
downy chicks are black, as...
-
Hawaiian religion. It is
likely that the
Hawaiian gallinule is
descended from
stray migrant common gallinules from
North America. It was
formerly treated as...
-
Purple gallinule is an
alternative name for two
species of
birds in the rail family. It can
refer to:
Purple swamphen, a
group of
closely related species...
- They are
close relatives of coots. They are
often referred to as (black)
gallinules. Recently, one of the
species of
Gallinula was
found to have
enough differences...
-
unrelated water birds with
similar forms, such as
loons or divers, grebes,
gallinules and coots. The word duck
comes from Old
English dūce 'diver', a derivative...
- (Porphyrio albus), also
known as the Lord Howe swamphen, Lord Howe
gallinule or
white gallinule, is an
extinct species of rail
which lived on Lord Howe Island...
- Taylor, Barry; van Perlo, Ber (2010). Rails: A
Guide to Rails, Crakes,
Gallinules and
Coots of the World. A&C Black. p. 26. ISBN 9781408135372. Hume, Julian...
