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25-01-2011, 07:15 AM
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| | | american purple gallinale
found this it was posted on the devon bird news 24/01/11
This immature American Purple Gallinule was found dead in a private garden on west Dartmoor this morning. Late this afternoon it was handed over to the Assistant County Recorder when the above photo was taken.
If accepted, this will be the third record for Britain following an immature picked up exhausted on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, 7th November 1958 (British Birds 53: 145-146, plate I; G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 53: 164; K. Williamson & I. J. Ferguson-Lees, British Birds 53: 371; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 42), and an immature picked up dead at Southill Park, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, April or May 2008 (B. Nightingale, Birdwatch Issue 200, Feb., 2009: 60-61) 
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25-01-2011, 07:21 AM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
That's interesting.Never heard of one and it doesn't look much like a migratory sort of bird.
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25-01-2011, 07:37 AM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
it belongs to the rail family the adult bird is very colourful 
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25-01-2011, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by faz  it belongs to the rail family the adult bird is very colourful | I guessed as much with feet like those!
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25-01-2011, 07:53 AM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
Ive seen the closely related (purple swamphen) western swamp hen in southern Europe fantastic birds. Migrantion over such a large distance often results in birds dying of exhaustion especially if they arrive in a British winter. This is a species associated with warm marshland and tropical temperatures. |
25-01-2011, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Dogghound This is a species associated with warm marshland and tropical temperatures. | This one definitely took a wrong turn then.  Shame. 
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25-01-2011, 01:13 PM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
One found moribund on The Azores a week or so ago. Taken into care where it later died.
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25-01-2011, 01:18 PM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
how strange.. what must have happened?? |
25-01-2011, 01:24 PM
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| | | Re: american purple gallinale
Happens fairly regularly. They usually end up on The Azores (or in the sea). Typically they are mostly dead or dying when found. Apparently they are annual visitors to Tristan da Cunha and frequently found in South Africa.
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26-01-2011, 02:40 PM
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its been all overe the radio to day big buzz of excitment on radio devon
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