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Australian Purple Swamphen

Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus

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6 Comments

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 11 years ago

Thank you for all your lovely comments, friends. Yes he does have huge feet! I assume it's for walking across lilypads :)

MacChristiansen
MacChristiansen 11 years ago

Great series Leanne

flynn.jeannette
flynn.jeannette 11 years ago

I have to agree with Jeannette. It's feet are HUGE!!!!

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Lovely series :)

Wow photo #2, huge feet :D

Beautiful capture Leanne,gorgeous bird,congrats thanks for sharing

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Great series :)

LeanneGardner
Spotted by
LeanneGardner

4740, Queensland, Australia

Spotted on Nov 23, 2012
Submitted on Nov 24, 2012

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