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Gallinula galeata
Pigeon-sized brown and gray bird
Feeding near cattails, Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin
Spotted on Oct 11, 2014
Submitted on Oct 12, 2014
4 Comments
Thanks!
This is a juvenile Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
It was split from G. chloropus recently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_gall...
Thanks, Kibuyu, but I don't think that's right. According to my sources, the common moorhen doesn't come to the Western Hemisphere.
Juvenile moorhen