Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinica - Frango-d'água-azul
(Photo by Maria Bedacht, taken in Alagoas, Brazil - Oct 2004.)
Described by Linnaeus in 1766. (See: Birds in Brazil, H. Sick - pg 214 and Birds of North America, Alsop, 2002, pg 282)
Like the Common Moorhen, the Purple Gallinule has out sized feet for walking on water lilies and other aquatic plants.
