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English Common Gallinule
Scientific (Gallinula galeata)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rallidae
Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions NA, SA, PO
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,British Virgin Islands, Canada,Cayman Islands,Chile,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador, French Guiana,Guam,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico,Micronesia,Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Northern Mariana Islands,Palau,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Puerto Rico,Saint Helena,Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,Virgin Islands,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
sandvicensis Hawaiian Is.
cachinnans se Canada, USA to w Panama, Bermuda and Galápagos
cerceris Greater and Lesser Antilles
barbadensis Barbados
pauxilla e Panama, n and w Colombia and w Ecuador to sw Peru and n Chile
garmani Andes of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina
galeata Trinidad, the Guianas south to Uruguay and n Argentina
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1818)
German Amerikateichhuhn
French Gallinule d’Amérique
Chinese 美洲黑水鸡
Japanese アメリカバン
Russian Американская камышница
Spanish Gallineta americana
Portuguese galinha-d'água-americana
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)