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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Rails Common Moorhen Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus meridionalis)   Range: PAL, AF, IO, OR, PO (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - Rondevlei Nature Reserve South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Common Moorhen) last first previous  (Clapper Rail) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make NIKON CORPORATION Model NIKON D2X Aperture Value f/8 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Manual Flash No Flash Focal Length 420 mm ISO 100 Metering Mode Center Weighted Average Shutter Speed Value 1/320 sec Date/Time Fri 25 Aug 2006 12:01:04 PM EDT Custom Fields Defined: DKZ00024 Additional Information English Common Moorhen Scientific (Gallinula chloropus meridionalis) Order GRUIFORMES Family (Latin) Rallidae Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots Other name(s) Breeding Regions PAL, AF, IO, OR, PO Breeding Range Subregions widespread Nonbreeding Range Subregions Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus, Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic, Chad,China,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia, Germany,Ghana,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania, Mauritius,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands, Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Poland, Portugal,Qatar,Reunion,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,San Marino,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal, Serbia,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan, Vietnam,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe, IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range chloropus Europe and n Africa to Japan and se Asia meridionalis Africa s of the Sahara and St. Helena (tropical se Atlantic Ocean) pyrrhorrhoa Comoros, Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius (w, c Mascarenes) orientalis Inner Is. (ne Seychelles), Andamans, Malay Pen., Greater and Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi region and Philippines guami n Mariana Is. and Guam (w Micronesia) IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by (Linnaeus, 1758) German Teichhuhn French Gallinule poule-d’eau Chinese 黑水鸡 Japanese バン Russian Камышница Spanish Gallineta común Portuguese galinha-d'água-comum Bird Data App text   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) next (Common Moorhen) last first previous  (Clapper Rail)