Porphyrio melanotus

1 Australasian Swamphen at Fyshwick, ACT

Request use of media

Identification history

	Porphyrio melanotus	4 Dec 2022	Liam.m
	Porphyrio melanotus	3 Dec 2022	RodDeb

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

have not seen these with youngsters as much at this time of year so far with the strange weather we have been having, this is the first lot of youngsters we have seen here this season

Be the first to comment

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

17 Abundance
2 Dec 2022 12:45 PM Recorded on
RodDeb Recorded by
Collections
RodDeb Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds Birds

Additional information

True Nesting site

Species information

Porphyrio melanotus Scientific name
Australasian Swamphen Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 796.5m Recorded at altitude
330 images trained Machine learning
Synonyms
Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio

Record quality

Images or audio
More than one media file
Verified by an expert moderator
Nearby sighting(s) of same species
GPS evidence of location
Description
Additional attributes

830,969 sightings of 22,884 species from 14,386 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy

NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania