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Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

Photo by Janice Parr
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

The moorhen has dark feathers with a patch of white under its tail and on its wings. They have yellow legs and a red beak with a yellow tip.

Habitat:

This one was winding its way around lily pads on the River Ouse at Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK.

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