Common moorhen

Occurs extensively worldwide between 65° North and 40° South, largely excluding forested and desert areas; it occupies much of sub-Saharan Africa. In southern Africa it is locally common in Zimbabwe, northern and south-eastern Botswana, Namibia (including the Caprivi Strip), South Africa and parts of Mozambique. It generally prefers freshwater wetlands, such as marshes, swamps, ponds, pans, streams, rivers, canals, flooded grassland and temporary pools on flood plains.