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Purple Swamphen - feet

Porphyrio porphyrio

Description:

Gallinule feet are the coolest and most surprising things, looking more like chicken feet than waterbird feet. They can use their feet for walking around on top of vegetation in ponds too.

Habitat:

Eastern Australia, sw Australia and the Top End. City park ponds, dams, swamps, shallow rivers with rushes, water lilies. Widespread and common/

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KathleenMcEachern
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KathleenMcEachern

New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Jan 9, 2014
Submitted on Mar 4, 2014

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