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Gallinula galeata
Medium, chicken-like marsh bird with gray-brown back and slate-gray head, neck, breast, and belly. Upper flanks show distinct white line. Yellow-tipped red bill is short with red frontal plate extending onto forehead. Tail is white below. Long legs and unwebbed feet are yellow-green.
Wetlands
Species recently split from Common Moorhen.
Spotted on Nov 23, 2011
Submitted on Nov 29, 2011
2 Comments
Nice!
Perhaps you could add this wiki link to explain the split http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Moor...