Rails, Crakes & Coots

Purple Gallinule

Porphyrio martinicus

The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) is a 235 g wetland bird. It stays put all year.

Family

Rails, Crakes & Coots

Order

Gruiformes

Weight

235 g

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Plants and seeds

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

37

Recorded in United States, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Canada, Paraguay, AW, Dominican Rep., Guyana, Jamaica, El Salvador, GF, Suriname, Uruguay, BQ, Curaçao, BM, GP, Haiti, Bahamas, Barbados, KY, South Africa.

Where to see it: Laguna Cartagena - West End (Puerto Rico); Ammo Dump Ponds (Panama); Bon Accord Sewage Treatment Ponds (Trinidad and Tobago); Bubali Bird Sanctuary (Aruba); RN Laguna de Sonso (Colombia).

Photo: (c) Court Harding, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist