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Gallinula galeata
Also called "swamp chicken"
Bayou - waterways with cypress trees, spanish moss, etc.
Spotted on Apr 8, 2009
Submitted on Mar 4, 2015
2 Comments
Thanks! I've been a birder too long and sometimes I forget the changes. (I still catch myself saying "Rufous-Sided Towhee" sometimes - lol).
These aren't called moorhens anymore, they split that species into new world and old world, and moorhen is old world now. We have common gallinules here in the Americas, Gallinula galeata :)