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Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus · Family Rallidae

Gallinula chloropus

Family Rallidae

Order
Gruiformes
Family
Rallidae
GBIF occurrence records
6,105,621
Countries and territories with records
224
Common Moorhen
gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa), Mauritius.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Joost van Bruggen · Gallinula_chloropus_-_Common_Moorhen_XC436938.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Joost van Bruggen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 6,105,621 occurrence records from 224 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (23.7%), the United Kingdom (12.3%), the Netherlands (9.8%), Spain (5.7%) and France (5.6%); together they account for 57.1% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.13% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Gallinula chloropus combines the genus name Gallinula with the species epithet chloropus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Gallinula; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gallinula galeata, Gallinula tenebrosa and Gallinula comeri.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 122 species of the family Rallidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Fulica americana. Its record count is 25.1 times the family average (243,573). The family Rallidae belongs to the order Gruiformes, which has 150 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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