Rails, Crakes & Coots
Western Swamphen
Porphyrio porphyrio
The Western Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) is a 774 g wetland bird. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Rails, Crakes & Coots
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Weight
- 774 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 56
Photo: (c) Benoit Renaud, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist