Rails, Crakes & Coots
Common Gallinule
Gallinula galeata
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.
- Family
- Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Weight
- 340 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 51
Recorded in United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Bahamas, BM, Ecuador, KY, Dominican Rep., Panama, Guatemala, Uruguay, Chile, GP, Barbados, Honduras, Costa Rica, AW, Venezuela, Jamaica, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Nicaragua, VI, Belize, Paraguay, MF, Grenada, Antigua and Barb., BQ, SX, Haiti, El Salvador, MS, Saint Lucia, KN, AI, TC, MQ, France, VG, St. Vin. and Gren., GF, Dominica, BL.
Where to see it: Etang Baie Lucas (Saint Martin (French part)); Josiah's Bay Pond (British Virgin Islands); Woburn MPA - Observation Tower (Grenada); Étang de l'Aéroport (Saint Martin (French part)); Great Salt Pond · South East (Sint Maarten (Dutch part)).
Photo: Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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