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The purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) is a swamphen in the genus Porphyrio. It is in the order Gruiformes, meaning "crane-like", an order which also contains cranes, rails, and crakes. The purple gallinule is a rail species, placing it into the family Rallidae. It is also known locally as the yellow-legged gallinule.
It includes some smaller species of gallinules which are sometimes separated as genus Porphyrula or united with the gallinules proper (or "moorhens") in Gallinula. The Porphyrio gallinules are distributed in the warmer regions of the world. The group probably originated in Africa in the Middle Miocene, before spreading across the world in waves ...
The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. [ 3 ] It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas.
The closely related common gallinule G. galeata of the New World, and the tristan moorhen G. nesiotis and gough moorhen G. comeri of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, formerly often regarded as conspecific, are now treated as a separate species by all the ornithological authorities, [6] following the discovery of significant genetic differences ...
Some species have long necks and in many cases are laterally compressed. [4] The bill is the most variable feature within the family. In some species, it is longer than the head (like the clapper rail of the Americas); in others, it may be short and wide (as in the coots), or massive (as in the purple gallinules). [5]
Purple gallinule is an alternative name for two species of birds in the rail family. It can refer to: Purple swamphen, a group of closely related species of swamphen of the Old World; American purple gallinule, Porphyrio martinicus of the New World
Photos show the shiny, almost metallic purple coloring of the new species. Researchers said they named the new species after its preferred tree: Cupressus corneyana. These cyprus trees are known ...
Many island species are flightless and many of those have gone extinct in the last five centuries. Gallinules are less secretive, and are usually found near or on water. Purple gallinule, Porphyrio martinica; Galapagos rail, Laterallus spilonota (E) Paint-billed crake, Mustelirallus erythrops; Sora, Porzana carolina (A) Common gallinule ...