Grey-headed Swamphen
Porphyrio poliocephalus
Summary 2
Grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) is a species of swamphen occurring from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, but was elevated to full species status in 2015; today the purple swamphen is considered a superspecies and each of its six races are designated full species.
This is a rare resident in Singapore.
It can be separated from the Black-backed swamphen by its grey head.
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- (c) Tan Kok Hui, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://picasaweb.google.com/107386319100895694067/OurBirdingTrips?authkey=Gv1sRgCPOn8Zj6hvX1jwE#5743315089662996290
- Adapted by Tan Kok Hui from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrio_poliocephalus
