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Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

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http://www.arkive.org/common-moorhen/gallinula-chloropus/image-G84786.html
Your right I keep forgetting they split but they still look the same http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gallinula_chloropus_young.jpg
Common Gallinule isn't even found on the same continent...
Common Gallinule lacks the purple and has a white stripe along its side. Juvenile moorhen has a white side stripe, is duskier overall, and lacks colorful wings and blue frontal shield.
Adult Purple Gallinule has blue body plumage, green wings, and a blue frontal shield, and lacks white flank stripe. Juvenile Purple Gallinule has tawny neck and head, mostly white underparts, and greenish wings. Purple Gallinule lacks black line down the middle of the undertail coverts.
Look at pictures of immatures. They are gray, just like yours is.
common moorhen have red beg.it beg is not red.is it common moorhen?ii have aother spoting of common moorhen
Looks like a juvenile Common Moorhen
it looks like Purple Swamphen ... upload another if u have !!
Do you have any other images?
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PublishedOctober 24, 2013

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