#Porphyrio melanotus

[triruntu]

#578, a pūkeko!

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[rattyexplores]

Gruiformes: Porphyrio melanotus

Gruiformes: Gallinula tenebrosa

Anseriformes: Anser anser domesticus × anser cygnoides domesticus

Anseriformes: Chenonetta jubata

Gruiformes: Gallinula tenebrosa

Gruiformes: Fulica atra, note the wacky feet

Anseriformes: Anas superciliosa ssp. superciliosa

Charadriiformes: Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

Columbiformes: Ocyphaps lophotes

Various southern bird life, and some GIF footage.

25/03/23 - Aves spp. - Wollongong, urban botanical garden

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

photo source

[perfect-plumage]

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

© Marcus Singor

[duck-disco]

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

© Marcus Singor

[tadpoles-yay]

Isn’t this little dude this big wiggly dude

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

© Anne Reardon

[herpsandbirds]

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio m. melanotus), mother and chick, family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Western Australia

photograph by Matt Laughton

[mutant-distraction]

Matt Laughton

Australians Swamphen

The Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) is a species of swamphen (Porphyrio) occurring in eastern Indonesia (the Moluccas, Aru and Kai Islands), Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand, it is known as the pūkeko. The species used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen.

[scarabies-real]

trick or treat give me a fucked up bird !!!

Boo bitch! It’s a pūkeko chick! (Porphyrio melanotus)

[bens-birds]

Pūkeko (Porphyrio melanotus)

[Also known as Australasian swamphen]

Rotorua, Aotearoa - 02-02-2020

[triruntu]

#579, a baby pūkeko!

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[drhoz]

#2698 - Porphyrio melanotus ssp. melanotus - Australian Swamphen

Commonly known as the pūkeko in New Zealand.

A large omnivorous semi-aquatic rail found from eastern Indonesia to Aotearoa, where it's a common sight in pasture, farmland, and roadside verges.

Pūkeko frequently breed in social groups of up to nine, rather than pairs, with all members contributing to territory defence, nesting, and chick rearing. The boss bird is determined by the size of the shield on their foreheads, and other physical characteristics.

Fossil evidence suggests the birds first arrived in Aotearoa about 500 years ago, following Polynesian settlement. They may have arrived under their own power - they don't fly often, but they have been found on islands up to 200km away from the nearest population.

Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand.

[leedsomics]

De-novo genome assembly of four rails (Aves: Rallidae): a resource for comparative genomics

The rails are a phenotypically diverse family of birds that includes around 130 species and displays a wide distribution around the world. Here we present annotated genome assemblies for four rails from Aotearoa New Zealand: two native volant species, p[u]keko Porphyrio melanotus and mioweka Gallirallus philippensis, and two endemic flightless species takah[e] Porphyrio hochstetteri and weka Gallirallus australis. The quality checks and comparison with other rallid genomes showed that the new assemblies were of high quality and that the annotations could be trusted. Using the sequence read data, heterozygosity was found to be lowest in the endemic flightless species and this probably reflects their relatively small populations. This study significantly increases the number of available rallid genomes and will enable future genomic studies on the evolution of this family. http://dlvr.it/T0bxVM

[birds-in-posts]

Pūkeko (Porphyrio melanotus)

check this out

[herpsandbirds]

OMGGG TYSM FOR THE LAST ONE have we done pukekos? Preferably the babies? I see the memes EVEYWHEREEE

Pukeko aka Australasian Swamp Hen (Porphyrio m. melanotus), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, New Zealand

photos: Steven Schwartzman & Sid Mosdell

photographs by Steve

[perfect-plumage]

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

© Anonymous eBirder