Gallinules have gotten around a bit I guess.

1) (Ffrench, 2004). American purple gallinule is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource.If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. The purple gallinule lives in freshwater marshes with aquatic vegetation like lily pads and pickerelweed. The species lives in wetlands (including marshes, lakes and reservoirs with stable water-level) which provide dense areas of vegetation ( mainly reedmace Typha, reedsPhragmites and sedges Carex). There is also a european species, " Old-World "purple gallinule, which is the western swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) that looks the same. Description Marshy species, L 50 cm, unmistakable, has a uniform dark purple-blue plumage contrasting with red bill, forehead, eyes and legs. That was probably too much info but Hey,Im a birder..we like that stuff. The purple gallinule eats a wide variety of foods including frogs, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders and water plants. Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzungen für purple gallinule im Online-Wörterbuch dict.cc (Deutschwörterbuch). That juvenile was the first Purple Gallinule I had ever seen. Life Cycle Female purple gallinules lay six to ten eggs in a nest of dead tree stems and leaves. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. It breeds throughout much of the eastern United States and locally in the West, wintering in southeastern and southwestern states with the largest concentration in Florida. Diet. This species is ecologically and behaviorally intermediate between the American Coot and the rails, and it resembles the Purple Gallinule in certain respects. All are beautiful birds! It has a pale blue shield on its forehead and red cone shaped bill with a yellow tip (Dunn & Alderfer, 2006).

Our "New World" purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) looks very closely like the Australian species. The purple gallinule, known as the waterman or the blue waterfowl, is distinguishable by its bright purplish blue head and underbody and long bright yellow legs with large elongated toes used to walk steadily on floating swamp plants (Fig. Purple Gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio. Please do not substitute this template.