As a part of bird watching, I would like to know more about the bird which I come across.
Today I have chosen “Purple Moorhen”.
It so happened that we were able to sight this bird when we had been to hebbal lake for birding and photography.
· This bird is also called swamp hens. And in kannada (ನೇರಳೆ ಜಂಬುಕೋಳಿ)
· As the name indicates, the bird is more or less the size of a village hen. It is purple-blue in colour with long red legs and toes. The bill is also red and the head is bald. The female are less attractive with pruplish grey in colour.
· There are about 13 species and sub-species of swamphen, differentiated on the basis of their plumage (it is feathers covering the bird with their patterns and arrangement)
· The Purple Swamphen prefers wet areas with high rainfall, swamps, lake edges and damp pastures. The birds often live in pairs and larger communities. It clambers through the reeds, eating the tender shoots and vegetable-like matter, insects, water beetles. They have been known to eat eggs, ducklings, small fish and invertebrates such as snails.
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