#american purple gallinule

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Have you Appreciated the American Purple Gallinule Today?

[birdblues]

American Purple Gallinule

[proton-wobbler]

Battle Royale

Pool Party! (E-5)

These birds are loosely grouped by their associations with water, and because I didn't want the family BR to get too big. Keep your eyes peeled- there may be someone here who got a little lost, but we don't discriminate here!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Purple Gallinule

Photo: Andy Morffew

"This gallinule is a striking bird, big, brightly colored, and noisy. With its strong legs and long toes, it runs about on open shorelines, walks on floating lily pads, and clambers through marshes and waterside trees, flicking its short tail nervously. Nods its head as it swims; flies short distances with legs dangling conspicuously. Found mainly in the southeast and the tropics, but single birds sometimes stray far to the north at any season."

- Audubon Field Guide

[alonglistofbirds]

[185/10,977] American Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinicus

Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae (rails) Genus: Porphyrio (swamphens)

Photo credit: Martjan Lammertink via Macaulay Library

[antiqueanimals]

Virginia Wildlife; vol. 32, no. 10. October, 1971. Illustration by John W. Taylor.

Internet Archive

[herpsandbirds]

Hey, forgive me if this is a question already answered.. but what is your favorite bird?

Oh. my love, I couldnt possible answer that!

I will just show you 10 of my favorites right off the top of my head...

American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

photograph by Judy Gallagher

Southern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeater), family Bucorvidae, order Bucerotiformes, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by Bernard DUPONT  

Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Cape Coral, Florida, USA

photograph by Cee Z Fotography

Temminck’s Tragopan (Tragopan temminckii), family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, China

photograph by Peter Stubbs

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Costa Rica

This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

Photograph by Giovanni Delgado Herrera

Kagu or Cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus), family Rhynochetidae, order Eurypygiformes, endemic to New Caldeonia

ENDANGERED.

This bird is the only member of its family. It is most closely related to the Sunbittern.

photograph by the_zoologist_barista The Zoologist Barista (@the_zoologist_barista)

Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica), female, family Heliornithidae, order Gruiformes, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

photograph by George Scott

White-throated Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus albivitta), family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, Colombia

This species was once considered to be a subspecies of the Emerald Toucanet, but was split off as a separate species in 2008.

photograph by William Salazar Sanchez

Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, Brazil

photograph by Ivan Cesar

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), male, family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, Louisiana, USA

Photograph by David Hollie

[magnetothemagnificent]

I am on Spring break so I finally get to focus on birding again! Today's birds:

Little blue heron

Black vulture

Great egret

Sandhill crane

Mourning dove

Cattle egret

Great blue heron

Anhinga

Double crested cormorant

Red winged Blackbird

Limpkin

Wood stork

White ibis

Muskovy duck

Boat-tailed grackle

American crow

American coot

Common gallinule

Common grackle

Glossy ibis

Palm warbler

Common grackle

Osprey

American purple gallinule

Wood duck

Red shouldered hawk

Pied billed grebe

Royal tern

Eastern Phoebe

Roseate spoonbill

Black-bellied Whistling duck

Tricolor heron

Northern harrier

Yellow rumped warbler

Tree swallow

Swallow tailed kite

Ring billed gull

Turkey vulture

Little blue heron

Mallard

White pelican

Red eyed vireo

Mulard

Pekin x Mallard Hybrid (there was this fascinating flock of ducks consisting of mallards, feral pekins, muskovy ducks, mulards (muskovy x mallard hybrid), and Pekin/mallard hybrids)

Feral American pekin

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Florida

Date: December

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

Bird - 82 graciously submitted by @rose-in-a-fisted-glove

[officialweezerelections]

THE FULL FUCKED UP BIRD BRACKET

All birds have been randomized, the seeds mean nothing. Yes pitohui is spelled incorrectly in the bracket image.

GROUP A

Andean Condor VS Loggerhead Shrike

Superb Lyrebird VS Emu

Greater Sage-Grouse VS Common Ostrich

Yellow-Billed Oxpecker VS American Woodcock

Bare-Throated Bellbird VS Giant Petrel

Greater Sooty Owl VS Vampire Ground Finch

Great Eared Nightjar VS Spur-Winged Goose

Common Cuckoo VS Tawny Frogmouth

GROUP B

Great Potoo VS Killdeer

Domestic Chicken VS Oilbird

Tufted Puffin VS Dalmatian Pelican

King Vulture VS Twelve-Wired Bird Of Paradise

Greater Superb Bird Of Paradise VS Perrito

Barn Owl VS Purple Gallinule

Bearded Vulture VS Secretary Bird

Long Wattled Umbrellabird VS Horned Screamer

GROUP C

Oriental Bay Owl VS Anhinga

Pennant Winged Nightjar VS Snowy Sheathbill

Red-Legged Seriema VS Marabou Stork

Argentavis VS Common Loon

Black Skimmer VS Luzon Bleeding-Heart

Southern Cassowary VS Flamingo (all species)

Green Heron VS Great Hornbill

African Jacana VS California Condor

GROUP D

Hamerkop VS Capuchinbird

Shoebill Stork VS American White Pelican

Roseate Spoonbill VS Hoatzin

Terror Bird VS Elephant Bird

Great Egret VS Magnificent Frigatebird

Guinean Cock-Of-The-Rock VS Hooded Pitohui

White-Throated Rail VS Spur-Winged Plover

White Bellbird VS Kiwi

Polls will be tagged with their BRACKET (example: #bracket a) and #tournament poll

MAY THE WORST BIRD WIN

[thatmexisaurusrex]

BIRDWATCHING OBVIOUSLY unless you already got that one thennnnnn “what else is in there?” bc wowee that could go anywhere lol

Micro Fic Challenge Prompts

Beeeeeee ✨ Fantastic choices 😆 I haven't gotten a birdwatching one, so let's go with that one! Enjoy 🥰

Birdwatching

Bucky wasn't sure what he was seeing.

He thought he spotted a particularly large falcon, but the closer he got, the more it looked... human-shaped?

Which wasn't a thing he would find while wandering a national park.

The wings couldn't be real, could they?

No.

This was getting weird.

Bucky wasn't some creep who spied on men in the woods wearing realistic cosplay wings that could - twitch on command? Bucky came here to see Red-Winged Blackbirds and Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks and American Purple Gallinule, not men.

Bucky wasn't checking out men on his university-funded excursion.

"You saw me."

Bucky stumbled backward, hitting his head on a tree. He winced as he saw - Bucky didn't know what LARPing group this man came from, but he was covered in jewelry and had the most intricately patterned silk pants Bucky had ever seen.

"I know. Sorry about that. I'm usually not a creep. Oof. No. that sounds worse. No excuses, I am so sorry - " Bucky started before his mind wandered because...

This man's eyes. Absalon Tulip eyes framed by dramatic, bronze eyeliner and a draping jeweled headpiece that glittered in the sun.

"Curious. Most people outside my realm can't see me," commented the man, looking Bucky up and down, "Was it the looking glass that aided you?"

"What?" asked Bucky, not quite keeping up with those eyes staring into his.

"Samuel. Of the Falcons. First of My Name. Explorer of the Waters Above. I prefer Sam," said the man as Bucky noticed the wings were real, "No wings here? How strange."

"Bucky?" blurted Bucky, "You thought I'd have wings?"

"Well. I'm not disappointed that you don't," said Sam as he offered his hand, "Show me your realm?"

"Sure," Bucky said without thinking, grabbing Sam's hand.

How could Bucky not?

[gothseparatist]

Purple gallinule on spatterdock (waterlily relative) in the marshes and American crocodile at a boating dock in the mangrove-dominated shoreline

Everglades, February 12th 2023

[birdblues]

American Purple Gallinule

[barry-kent-mackay]

a study of the head of an American Purple Gallinule, done in oils, 21 years ago.

art may be used for non-commercial purposes with attribution

prints and original art for sale on Fine Art America

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[floridensis]

when i was like 9-10 i had a guide to florida birds that i would just look at constantly. i would take it with me everywhere. i still have it

i have a mental list of a bunch of birds i liked and formed a vaguely parasocial relationship with but hadnt to my knowledge seen in my one decade of life but really wanted to. the mental list has never left me and i get so excited every time i see something on the Mental List that i havent seen before

the birds:

common loon [i found a dead one once does that count]

pied billed grebe ✅

white-tailed tropicbird

northern gannet

american white pelican

magnificent frigatebird ✅

american bittern

least bittern

snowy egret ✅

little blue heron ✅

reddish egret

glossy ibis ✅

roseate spoonbill ✅

wood stork ✅

fulvous whistling duck

wood duck ✅

bufflehead

hooded merganser ✅

ruddy duck ✅

crested caracara

american kestrel ✅

northern bobwhite

purple gallinule ✅

black necked stilt ✅

black skimmer

white-crowned pigeon ✅

common ground dove ✅

downy woodpecker ✅

pileated woodpecker ✅

loggerhead shrike ✅

florida scrub-jay [i apparently saw them as a child but barely remember]

cedar waxwing ✅

blackburnian warbler

black and white warbler ✅

ovenbird ✅

summer tanager

scarlet tanager

rose-breasted grosbeak

indigo bunting

painted bunting

bobolink

red winged blackbird ✅

scarlet ibis

dovekie

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dovekie

dovekie