A Purple Gallinule "out on a limb" eating his favorite food, the Fireflag seed.
Copyright and usage info : My photos are free to use for non-commercial Internet use only, up to five for any one purpose, provided that you retain the birdphotos.com imprint or visibly display © http://www.BirdPhotos.com with the image. For Internet usage, a link from the image to http://www.BirdPhotos.com is required. I would also like to know where the image is being used.
Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
300 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/790 sec
Date/Time
Wed 29 Apr 2009 08:42:51 AM EDT
Custom Fields
Defined: DKZ00039
English Purple Gallinule
Scientific (Porphyrio martinica)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rallidae
Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Other name(s) Poule sultane d'Amérique, American Purple Gallinule
Breeding Regions NA, MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions se USA to n Argentina
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Argentina,Bahamas,Belize,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,Canada,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba, Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,French Guiana,Grenada,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica, Mexico,Montserrat,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Puerto Rico,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766): NOTE(TAX: Species epithet treated as a noun in apposition, thus invariable (Schodde & Bock 2016).)
German Zwergsultanshuhn
French Talève violacée
Chinese 紫青水鸡
Japanese アメリカムラサキバン
Russian Малая султанка
Spanish Calamoncillo americano
Portuguese frango-de-água-azul
Bird Data App text Not uncommon, but generally rarer than the [Common Gallinule], [American Coot], or [Andean Coot].
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
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)