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Pukeko, Western Springs, New Zealand

Domestic hen sized bird, shiny Purple in color with a red patch on the bald head and red beak with long red legs clumsily moving along the shore line or among the reeds. This is the Purple Moorhen. The male is a glistening purple color and the female is a little duller than the male with greyish-purple color. This bird can be seen clumsily moving around with calculated gait and the short stubby tail flicking at every step. It is a very shy bird and hides itself among the cat-tail reeds at the slightest disturbance. Pairs are often seen and sometimes a party of them can be seen foraging at close fields adjoining the swamps. It is in the group of Rails, and has the characters of all rails. Distribution is throughout the country and an interesting bird to study, which need lot of stealth. Sometimes these birds are very amusing to watch as they try to clamber up the reeds awkwardly. They forage on insects, mollusks, water beetles, and water-plant shoots. In their foraging sprees they sometimes invade the close by paddy fields and graze on the tender rice-shoots. This is not much of a problem as the farmerâs presence is enough to send them off scuttling for cover among the reeds. The courtship display is more like children playing catch-me-if-you-can game. Their calls are also amusing as they do not keep to any standard call sometimes cackling like hens, sometimes hooting, sometimes hissing and shrieking. The male is seen to entice a female by holding a piece of reed in his beaks and offering it to females. The nesting season is from June to September. The nest is large pad of reed leaves on a floating mass or hidden inside the reed beds. 3 to 6 eggs are laid with pale yellowish color and blotched or spotted with reddish brown. Whether both the sexes share all domestic duties is a thing to be studied and discovered.

Purple Gallinule at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.

A close-up of a purple gallinule (Porphyrio Martinica) wading through water in the Everglades

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

Grey-headed swamphen

Western Swamphen, aka Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, fka Purple Gallinule, wading among vegetation at the side of a lagoon in Coto Doñana, southern Spain.

The Great Rail or Purple Swamphen can usually be found in the larger marshes and reed areas of the lowlands. This bluish-purple, agile bird has a red beak and legs.

A Grey-headed Swamphen in the amazing reserve of Green Cay wetlands in Florida.

Pukeko in water of swamp

$Taxon name: Australasian Purple Swamphen\nTaxon scientific name: Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus\nLocation: Newcastle, NSW, Australia$

Very successful waterbird of Australasia

Coot duck on the Vermillion Lakes in Banff National Park

Purple moorhen in flight.

A Dusky Moorhen walking along grass. Gallinula tenebrosa.

purple swamphen bird with blue feathers (pond on the background)

A common gallinule in the amazing reserve of Green Cay wetlands in Florida.

A native Pukeko bird with striking blue plumage and red beak, foraging in New Zealand wetlands. Bird watching.

Deep blue Swamphen foraging on the ground

American Coot (Common Gallinule) in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists water bird walking in shallow water pond at Sydney park, Australia.

A Purple Swamphen walking in the marsh, water's edge, looking for food. Green vegetations in the foreground, blue water background. Queensland, Australia

The purple swamphen Feeding in Sunrise

A Dusky Moorhen swimming in a lake in the morning sun. Gallinula tenebrosa.

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

$Taxon name: Tasmanian Native-hen\nTaxon scientific name: Tribonyx mortierii\nLocation: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia$

Bright and goofy looking Pukeko, or Australasian swamphen foraging around pond

Coot duck on the Vermillion Lakes in Banff National Park

The purple moor hen or Western swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

Common Gallinule at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.

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