Porphyrio melanotus

Australasian Swamphen at Splitters Creek, NSW

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Identification history

	Porphyrio melanotus	31 Jan 2021	ChrisAllen
	Unverified	21 Nov 2020	KylieWaldon

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I have racked my brains over this immautre bird and I'm still not sure. Purple Swamphen? It was boldly standing in the middle of this water - cleaning - not eating. There was a coot nearby, Black Swans, and Dusky Moorhen with its babies but none were paying attention to this bird. It was just waiting (to be eaten!).

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ChrisAllen wrote:

31 Jan 2021

I think you're right with the Purple Swamphen Kylie. I've been putting off this one because its so odd. Pity field guides don't have illustrations of the awkward teenage years of birds.

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1 Abundance
14 Nov 2020 08:00 AM Recorded on
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Birds Water birds Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

Species information

Porphyrio melanotus Scientific name
Australasian Swamphen Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 796.5m Recorded at altitude
314 images trained Machine learning
Synonyms
Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio

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