La historia
I photographed this Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) at La Florida near Bogotá, Colombia on June 29, 2017. Its long toes spread its weight so it can walk across floating plants. It is an omnivorous ground feeder, eating a mix of plant and animal food. Its floating nest is hidden in dense vegetation along the shallow edges of lakes, rivers and marshes, and young birds stay on the territory to help raise their siblings.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/400 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200. IUCN lists the Purple Gallinule as Least Concern with a stable population, and Bogotá had about 150,000 hectares of wetlands in 1940, of which only about 1,500 remain.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) pertenece a la familia Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2025), with the population trend listed as stable. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
