Rails, Crakes & Coots
Spot-flanked Gallinule
Porphyriops melanops
The Spot-flanked Gallinule (Porphyriops melanops) is a 191 g wetland bird. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Weight
- 191 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 7
Recorded in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia.
Where to see it: Estero Mantagua (Chile); Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur (Argentina); Laguna del Diario (Uruguay); Ceibas (Argentina); (IBA) Esteros del Arroyo Maldonado · Área general (Uruguay).
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