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PURPLE SWAMPHEN FACTS |
Description
The Purple Swamphen is a large rail. It is mainly dusky black above, and dark blue to purple around neck and underneath.
Size
46cm
Habitat
freshwater swamps, streams and marshes.
Food
shoots of reeds and rushes, frogs, snails
Breeding
The nest is a platform of reeds surrounded by vegetation.
Range
eastern and northern Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Gruiformes | | Family: | Rallidae | | Genus: | Porphyrio | | Species: | porphyrio | | Common Name: | Purple Swamphen |
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