"Purple swamphen"

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5 June 2025

A Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) looks for food in a polluted urban wetland area in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 5, 2025.

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5 June 2025

A Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) looks for food in a polluted urban wetland area in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 5, 2025.

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9 September 2023

Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrioat) looks for food at the lake in Thalangama Wetland Park in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on September 9, 2023.

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15 January 2023

The grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) is a very large colorful bluish-purple water bird with a red bill and forehead shield found from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. The tail is flicked up often, revealing fluffy white ''underpants'' and making short nasal grunts and croaking sounds. Found in inhabitants of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes; usually in small groups, at muddy water edges, in reeds, and on floating vegetation. This photo was taken at the swamp of OxBow Lake known as 'Chupi Char' in East Burdawan, West Bengal; India on 15/01/2023.

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15 January 2023

The grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) is a very large colorful bluish-purple water bird with a red bill and forehead shield found from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. The tail is flicked up often, revealing fluffy white ''underpants'' and making short nasal grunts and croaking sounds. Found in inhabitants of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes; usually in small groups, at muddy water edges, in reeds, and on floating vegetation. This photo was taken at the swamp of OxBow Lake known as 'Chupi Char' in East Burdawan, West Bengal; India on 15/01/2023.

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15 January 2023

The grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) is a very large colorful bluish-purple water bird with a red bill and forehead shield found from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. The tail is flicked up often, revealing fluffy white ''underpants'' and making short nasal grunts and croaking sounds. Found in inhabitants of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes; usually in small groups, at muddy water edges, in reeds, and on floating vegetation. This photo was taken at the swamp of OxBow Lake known as 'Chupi Char' in East Burdawan, West Bengal; India on 15/01/2023.

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15 January 2023

The grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) is a very large colorful bluish-purple water bird with a red bill and forehead shield found from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. The tail is flicked up often, revealing fluffy white ''underpants'' and making short nasal grunts and croaking sounds. Found in inhabitants of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes; usually in small groups, at muddy water edges, in reeds, and on floating vegetation. This photo was taken at the swamp of OxBow Lake known as 'Chupi Char' in East Burdawan, West Bengal; India on 15/01/2023.

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31 December 2022

Purple moorhen also known as purple swamphen is seen at Hahila Lake Wetland in Nagaon District of Assam on Dec 31,2022.

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31 December 2022

Purple moorhen also known as purple swamphen is seen at Hahila Lake Wetland in Nagaon District of Assam on Dec 31,2022.

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31 December 2022

Purple moorhen also known as purple swamphen is seen at Hahila Lake Wetland in Nagaon District of Assam on Dec 31,2022.

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