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English Common Moorhen
Scientific (Gallinula chloropus)
Order GRUIFORMES
Family (Latin) Rallidae
Family (English) Rails, Crakes & Coots
Other name(s)
Regions PAL, AF, IO, OR, PO
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Somalia,Guinea,Seychelles,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Indonesia,Portugal,Nigeria,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Mauritius,Maldives,Bangladesh,Mali,Croatia,Swaziland,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Burkina Faso,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Rwanda,North Korea,Syria,Benin,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Macao,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Papua New Guinea,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Cape Verde,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Sao Tome and Principe,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Reunion,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan,Montenegro,
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)
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German Teichhuhn
French Gallinule poule-d’eau
Chinese 黑水鸡
Japanese バン
Russian Камышница
Spanish Gallineta común
Portuguese galinha-d'água-comum
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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)