Australasian Swamphen at Splitters Creek, NSW
Identification history
| Porphyrio melanotus | 31 Jan 2021 | ChrisAllen | ||
| Unverified | 21 Nov 2020 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.845944-36.070584
- Maps Wonga Wetlands Albury
- Places Splitters Creek, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Nov 2020 08:00 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Collections
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
- 303 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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