western swamphen
porphyrio porphyrio latin
pukeko NZE

This article is about the old-world Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio).

Pukeko (Porphyrio porphyrio).

The Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio is a "swamp hen" in the rail family Rallidae.

For information on the old-world bird Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio), see Purple Swamphen.

There is a similarly-named species in Europe, Asia and Africa, the Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, but that bird is much larger.

One such case is the Eastern Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), which gives conspicuous visual tail flicks (see also aposematism, handicap principle and stotting).

Pūkeko is the common name, derived from the Māori language, for the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) of New Zealand.

It is superficially similar to the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) and Calayan Rail (Gallirallus calayanensis).

The Indian Purple moorhen (Porphyrio porphyrio) also called Purple Swamp-hen is one of the beautiful common water birds found in India.

PURPLE GALLINULE or GREEN-BACKED GALLINULE Porphyrio porphyrio.

Nonetheless, three species of small-massed rails, Gallirallus philippensis, Porphyrio porphyrio, and Porzana tabuensis, exhibit a persistently high ability to disperse long-distance among tropic Pacific islands, though only the latter two gave rise to flightless endemic species throughout the Pacific Basin.