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  2. Common gallinule - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Rail (bird) - Wikipedia

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    Rails (avian family Rallidae) are a large, cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized terrestrial and/or semi-amphibious birds.The family exhibits considerable diversity in its forms, and includes such ubiquitous species as the crakes, coots, and gallinule; other rail species are extremely rare or endangered.

  4. American purple gallinule - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Moorhen - Wikipedia

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    Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus Gallinula, Latin for "little hen." [1] They are close relatives of coots. They are often referred to as (black) gallinules.

  6. Common moorhen - Wikipedia

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    The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), also known as the waterhen, is a bird species in the rail family (Rallidae). It is distributed across many parts of the Old World, across Africa, Europe, and Asia. [1] It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. [1]

  7. List of birds of California - Wikipedia

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    Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. The most typical family members occupy dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, swamps, or rivers.

  8. Swamphen - Wikipedia

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    Porphyrio is the swamphen or swamp hen bird genus in the rail family. 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 ...

  9. Hawaiian gallinule - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula galeata sandvicensis) is an endangered chicken-sized water bird in the rail family. It is also variously known as the Hawaiian common gallinule , Hawaiian moorhen , Hawaiian common moorhen , mudhen , or ‘alae ‘ula (“burnt forehead” - for its prominent red frontal shield) in Hawaiian , [ 2 ] and ...

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