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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

10,000 Birds

The colorful Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands, and a feral population is now well established in Florida. Black-backed Swamphen ( Porphyrio indicus ) in Java, Indonesia, by Ron Knight. Black-backed Swamphen. Australasian Swamphen.