Gallinule - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gallinuleGallinule
One of several wading birds having long webless toes and a frontal shield belonging to the family Rallidae They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio The common European gallinule Gallinula chloropus is also called moor hen water hen water rail moor coot night bird and erroneously dabchick Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule Gallinula galeata...
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A gallinule Notornis Mantelli formerly inhabiting New Zealand but now supposed to be extinct It was incapable of flight See Notornis...
moorhen
A black gallinule Gallinula chloropus that inhabits ponds and lakes...
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A genus of birds allied to the gallinules but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct...
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