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Gray-headed Swamphen
Porphyrio poliocephalus
Least ConcernThe Gray-headed Swamphen is a rail, crake, gallinule, coot, or swamphen of freshwater wetlands, marshes, and densely vegetated shorelines across the species' range. It usually keeps close to dense cover around marshes, wet grassland, flooded fields, or shallow water, where it searches for seeds, shoots, insects, and other small invertebrates with its long toes spreading its weight on soft ground.
- Family
- Rallidae
- Range
- Gray-headed Swamphen Range — Resident or seasonal range in freshwater wetlands, marshes, and densely vegetated shorelines across the species' range
- Population
- ≈ 2M–20M