#purple gallinule

[keywestwildlifecenter]

This Purple Gallinule was rescued from a hotel room at Casa Marina this morning. The Gallinule was uninjured and is being returned to the wild this afternoon.

[antiqueanimals]

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

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Have you Appreciated the American Purple Gallinule Today?

[birdblues]

American Purple Gallinule

[newbirder]

This Purple Gallinule calls the Sweetwater Wetlands Park in Gainesville home! The park is not only a birding hotspot, it also cleans and filters water.

[typhlonectes]

The purple gallinule is found in the swamps of the southeastern US. What better way to get around such habitat than to walk on lily pads? With incredibly long and widespread toes, these birds distribute their weight enough to maneuver through the wetlands with ease.

via: USFWS Southeast Region

[vintagewildlife]

Purple gallinule By: Arthur A. Allen From: The Book of Bird Life 1961

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Purple gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) striding over lily pads on pond surface, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. March.

Photographer: George Sanker

[starskynder]

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!

[antiqueanimals]

Purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)

Part of a collection of watercolors by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

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[rgibson63]

Bird color wheel. All North American birbs.

[officialweezerelections]

BRACKET B

Barn Owl (Tyto alba)

This is the flatwoods monster.

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Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus)

They’ve got crazy colors and big yellow feet for walking across lily pads.

[timetolearnoclock]

in the wilds

"In the wilds of New Guinea, the Purple Gallinule abides without fear of shotguns."

October 1955

Quote taken from original text included with the image in the magazine

[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

[birdblues]

Purple Gallinule