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Purple Gallinule

Porphyrio martinica

Habitat:

Spotted in small wooded area (Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary), quarter mile from the beach (Gulf).

Notes:

Gallinule must have been tired from migrating. It was busy eating insects in the grass ignoring me taking photos just a few feet away.

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Tamarac Denis
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Tamarac Denis

Quintana, Texas, USA

Spotted on May 10, 2013
Submitted on May 12, 2013

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