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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 ...
A chicken-sized bird, with huge feet, bright purple plumage and red bill and ...
porphyrio) in New Zealand. The subspecies ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bright plumage in shades of blue, a red bill, red eyes and orangey-red feet.
These lovely looking birds are "recognised by its snowy white bill and forehead ...
The Purple Swamphen has a "resplendent purple-blue neck, breast and belly, and ...
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 (