Australasian (Purple) Swamphen - Porphyrio melanotus
Photographed in Yanchep National Park, just north of Perth, Western Australia, 9-12-22.
Purple Swamphen
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed at Dunkeld Arboretum, Southern Grampians, Victoria.
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed at Birdsville Billabong, Birdsville, South-west Queensland.
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed at Mackay Botanical Gardens.
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed at Willow Bend Caravan Park, Wentworth, south-west New South Wales.
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed in West Creek, Toowoomba.
Porphyrio porphyrio, seen here on Nymphaea macrosperma water lily pads, at Mackay Botanical Gardens.
Porphyrio porphyrio, this adult Purple Swamp Hen breaks the piece of vegetation held in its foot into small pieces and feeds them to its chicks, photographed at Lake Wyangan, near Griffith NSW.
Porphyrio porphyrio, photographed at Jerilderie Lake.
(Porphyrio porphyrio), photographed at the Mackay Regional Bontanic Gardens.