Thursday, March 16, 2017

PURPLE SWAMPHEN

Kochi tap Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017
(*  83)             PURPLE SWAMPHEN              Porphyrio porphyrio

NEPAL              93

Inhabits dense roadbeds at pool edges and in marshes. 45-50 cm. Chiefly a winter visitor and passage migrant, also breeds locally.

NOTE: Indian subspecies sometimes treated as separate species Grey-headed Swamphen P. poliocephalus.




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