Common / Eurasian Moorhen

Order - Gruiformes 鹤形目

Family - Rallidae 秧鸡科 (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Genus - Gallinula 黑水鸡属

Common Moorhen / Eurasian Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

黑水鸡

    Size : 30–38 cm; Wingspan 50–55 cm           
             Male 249–493 (339) g, Female 192–343 (271) g (chloropus),
             Unsexed 173–335 (245) g (meridionalis)

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Gallinula chloropus chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  – Europe, N Africa, Azores, Madeira, Canaries and Cape Verde Is E through W, C & S Asia to Japan, S to Sri Lanka and C Malay Peninsula; N populations winter S to Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa and S Asia.
• Gallinula chloropus meridionalis (C. L. Brehm, 1831)
  – sub-Saharan Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe, and St Helena.
• Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa (A. Newton, 1861)
  – Comoro Is, Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius.
• Gallinula chloropus orientalis (Horsfield, 1821)
  – Seychelles, Andaman Is, S Peninsular Malaysia, Greater Sundas and W Lesser Sundas to Philippines and Palau Is.
• Gallinula chloropus guami (E. J. O. Hartert, 1917)
  – Northern Mariana Is and Guam.

Date : 13 July 2019

北方家塘, 柴桑区, 九江市, 江西省, 中国

North Jiatang, Chaisang District, Jiujiang Prefecture-level City, Jiangxi Province, China