#1051 · 🐦 birds

Common Gallinule

🇳🇱 Amerikaans Waterhoen ·Gallinula galeata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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6. © Jorge Emmanuel Escobar · CC BY-NC 4.0
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8. © Gonzalo Zepeda Martínez · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The common gallinule ( Gallinula galeata ) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas. The species is not found in the polar regions or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere, the common gallinule is likely the most commonly seen rail species in much of North America, excepting the American coot in some...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 80,178iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
80,178 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1818 (208 years ago).