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Native to New Zealand where they inhabit swampland areas
Spotted at the Mackay Botanic Gardens. Inhabits swamps, marshy paddocks & urban ...
A common sight in the wetlands in this case on the lake shore.
We didn't see him coming, but he wasn't distressed or worried, so he came quite ...
porphyrio) in New Zealand. The subspecies ...
A chicken-sized bird, with huge feet, bright purple plumage and red bill and ...
The size of a small hen, these birds have a beautiful purplish blue breast and ...
This chicken-sized bird, with its huge feet, bright plumage and red bill and ...
Takahe with his mate and chick, feeding them a dead unidentified bird. There is ...
This chicken-sized bird, with its large feet, bright plumage and red bill and ...
New Zealand swamp hen. This beautiful bird dwells near swampland, a clumsy ...
aside from the color, the dusky moorhen and purple swamphen can be ...
Bright plumage in shades of blue, a red bill, red eyes and orangey-red feet.
Once considered a subspecies of the Purple Swamphen (
The adults are a chicken sized water bird with dusky black plumage, dark ...
The Purple Swamphen mainly dusky black above, with a broad dark blue collar, ...
Mainly dusky black above, with a broad dark blue collar, and dark blue to ...
The Purple Swamphen has a "resplendent purple-blue neck, breast and belly, and ...
These lovely looking birds are "recognised by its snowy white bill and forehead ...
mainly in plumage colour.
The subspecies groups are:
P. p.
A large bird, would stand 40-50cm high, deep blue to black plummage with a ...
nest on the stick mounds, Purple Swamphens (