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Philippine Swamphen
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Philippine Swamphen

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Philippine Swamphen

Porphyrio pulverulentus

Philippine swamphen (Porphyrio pulverulentus) is a species of swamphen occurring in The Philippines. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, which it resembles, but has olive-chestnut mantle and scapulars, and the whole plumage is tinged with ash-grey.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 475029.