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Purple Gallinule

Porphyrio martinica

Photo by LivanEscudero
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Field Notes

Habitat:

freshwater marshes, mostly places that hold water year-round and that have sedges, grasses, and rushes and especially also dense stands of emergent floating vegetation such as American lotus, water shield, spatterdock, pickerel weed, arrowhead, water pennywort, and various water lilies

Notes:

"Channeling the Ancestors"- the first picture, I think, has an eerie Saurian feel to it. Birds trace their lineage back to therapod dinosaurs after all.

Reference Links:

Purple Gallinule Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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