#1106 · 🐦 birds

Purple Gallinule

🇳🇱 Amerikaans Purperhoen ·Porphyrio martinica

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bert Filemyr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Christoph Nissen · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Edward Perry IV · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Salvador Poot Villanueva · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © barloventomagico · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © guyincognito · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

This article is on the New-World purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus), not the Old-World purple gallinule, which is the western swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 21,692iNaturalist observations
weight 257 gadult, up to
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.
21,692 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 257 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).