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Gallinula chloropus

(Mariana Common Gallinule)

Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Grootwaterhoender

Common Names in Dutch:

Waterhoen

Common Names in English:

Alae Ula, American Gallinule, Blue Peter, Blue Rail, Chicken-Foot Coot, Common Gallinule, Common Moorhen, Florida Gallinule, Mariana Common Gallinule, Moorhen, Moorken, Red-Billed Mud-Hen, Sedge Peter, Water Chicken, Water Hen

Common Names in French:

Gallinule Poule-D'eau, Poule D'eau

Common Names in German:

Teichhuhn

Common Names in Hebrew:

סופית

Common Names in Italian:

Gallinella D'acqua

Common Names in Japanese:

バン

Common Names in Russian:

Камышница, Kamyshnitsa

Common Names in Spanish:

Gallineta Común, Gallineta Frente Roja, Polla De Agua

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Head : black Face : Frontal Shield: red Bill: red with yellow tip Neck: black Body: Back: brownish olive Color: dark slate Mantle: tinged with brownish Rump : tail Sides: brownish olive with horizontal white stripe Legs : Foot Color: yellow Leg Color: yellow-green Tibia: tips vermilion Tail: black Crissum: black in center, white at sides.Immature: Head: sooty-gray Face: Frontal Shield: small or absent Bill: dusky or yellow Neck: sooty-gray Throat : white Body: Upperparts: browner than adult.Young: Face: Forehead: reddish Bill: reddish.

Color:

Adult : Red frontal shield above bill · Red bill with a yellow tip · Slate gray head , neck, breast and belly · Brownish back and upperwings · White stripe along upper flanks · Tarsus and feet greenish yellow, tibia red

Juvenile : Small, dull red frontal shield · Dark bill with dull yellow tip · Pale gray-brown head and underparts · Whitish throat and belly · Dark gray-brown upperparts · White stripe along flanks

Size/Age/Growth

About 14 inches long, with a wingspan of 20 to 23 inches. Adults weigh about 12 ounces .

Habitat

Brackish ponds . Occasionally in freshwater ponds.

Vegetation: freshwater marshes • Maximum Elevation: 4,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Ecology: List of Habitats : 5.4 Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands

Biology

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Diet

Mostly: Plant Matter. Lesser Quantities of: Aquatic Invertebrates .

Reproduction

Migration

Some migrate

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006.

Similar Species

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American Coot

Members of the genus Gallinula

There are approximately 54 species in this genus:

G. alleni (Allen's Gallinule) · G. angulata (Lesser Moorhen) · G. bailloni · G. caesia · G. chloropus (Mariana Common Gallinule) · G. chloropus barbadensis · G. chloropus brachyptera · G. chloropus cachinnans (Common Moorhen) · G. chloropus cerceris · G. chloropus chloropus (Red-Billed Mud-Hen) · G. chloropus cholorpus · G. chloropus galeata · G. chloropus garmani · G. chloropus guami (Mariana Common Gallinule) · G. chloropus indica · G. chloropus indicus · G. chloropus lozanoi · G. chloropus meridionalis · G. chloropus orientalis · G. chloropus pauxilla · G. chloropus pyrrhorrhoa · G. chloropus sandvicensis (Hawaiian Common Gallinule) · G. chloropus sanvicensis · G. chloropus vestigialis · G. comeri (Gough Moorhen) · G. elegans · G. flavirostra · G. flavirostris · G. frontata · G. galeata · G. gigas · G. lugubris · G. madagascariensis · G. mangle · G. martinica (American Purple Gallinule) · G. melanops (Spot-Flanked Gallinule) · G. melanops bogotensis · G. melanops crassirostris · G. melanops melanops (Spot-Flanked Gallinule) · G. mortierii (Tasmanian Native-Hen) · G. nesiotis (Gough Islands Coot) · G. nesiotis comeri · G. nesiotis nesiotis (Gough Islands Coot) · G. oculea · G. orientalis · G. pacifica (Samoan Wood Rail) · G. pumila · G. ruficeps · G. silvestris (San Cristobal Mountain Rail) · G. tenebrosa (Dusky Moorhen) · G. tenebrosa frontata · G. tenebrosa neumanni · G. tenebrosa tenebrosa (Dusky Moorhen) · G. ventralis (Black-Tailed Native-Hen)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

Identifiers

Last Revised: 2009-06-19