
Common Gallinule Identification - All About Birds
Common Gallinules are mostly charcoal gray birds with a white stripe down their sides and white outer tail feathers. Adults have a bright red shield on their forehead and a red bill tipped in yellow. Immature birds look similar to adults, but lack the red shield and bill.
Common gallinule - Wikipedia
The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. [ 3 ] It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas.
Common Gallinule | Audubon Field Guide
Adaptable and successful, this bird is common in the marshes of North and South America. It was formerly considered to belong to the same species as the Common Moorhen, widespread in the Old World.
Common Gallinule - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ... - Animalia
The Common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the Rail family. It was split from the Common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. The Common gallinule is one of the most conspicuous rail species in North America, along with the American coot.
How to Identify a Common Gallinule - Birds and Blooms
Jan 4, 2024 · Learn what a common gallinule looks like and where to find this water bird. Plus, find out what name the species used to be called.
Common Gallinule | John James Audubon's Birds of America
Common Gallinule. The two species of Gallinule which occur in the United States are confined within a comparatively small range in that extensive country, the southern portions of which appear to suit them better, at all seasons of the year, than the other districts.
Common Gallinule - eBird
Learn more about Common Gallinule from… Blackish, chicken-like marsh bird, often found near cattails, never far from water. Often seen swimming, picking at the water's surface, or walking along the edge of aquatic vegetation. Thick legs and long toes are drab yellow.
Common Gallinule - All About Birds
The Common Gallinule swims like a duck and walks atop floating vegetation like a rail with its long and slender toes. This boldly marked rail has a brilliant red shield over the bill and a white racing stripe down its side.
Common Gallinule, information and images - TN.gov
The Common Gallinule is the size of a duck and swims like a duck, but is in fact, a rail. It is readily distinguished from all ducks by the blunt red and yellow bill and red forehead shield.
Common Gallinule Life History - All About Birds
The Common Gallinule swims like a duck and walks atop floating vegetation like a rail with its long and slender toes. This boldly marked rail has a brilliant red shield over the bill and a white racing stripe down its side.