Azure Gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris)

Other Scientific Names
Porphyrula flavirostris [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Azure Gallinule, Little Gallinule

Family
Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Inlandd wetlands. From sea-level - 500 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela.

Eastern Colombia through central-southern Venezuela to the Guianas and south to eastern Ecuador and northern Peru eastern across north-central Brazil; south-eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, western and central Brazil and central Paraguay to extreme northern Argentina; also extreme south-eastern Brazil.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

Azure Gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris) [XC22881]
by Joe Klaiber from Delta Amacuro, Tucupita, Venezuela (call)

Azure Gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris) [XC316480]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from mar\u00e9cages de Matiti, Kourou, French Guiana (call)

Subspecies
Formerly listed as Porphyrio parvus, but this name preoccupied. Sometimes placed in Gallinula or Porphyrula.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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