Azure Gallinule - BirdForum Opus

Photo by arthurgrosset
Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia, Brazil, March 2003

Porphyrio flavirostris

Identification

• Pale greenish-yellow bill and frontal shield
• Greenish-blue wing coverts
• Brown back and tail
• White throat and underparts
• Yellow legs.

Distribution

Eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Argentina and Brazil.

Taxonomy

A monotypic species.^[1]

Habitat

Freshwater marshes with floating vegetation, also marshy river and lakeside edges.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes invertebrates, insects and seeds taken from water and vegetation.

Breeding

The nest is an open leafy cup hidden in dense marshy vegetation. The four or five eggs are incubated by both adults.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibirds

• Arthur Grosset's Birds
• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Azure Gallinule. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 30 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Azure_Gallinule

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