Utah Bird Profile
 Common Gallinule - Gallinula chloropus

Name Roots: (L. gallinula, "hen" - Gr. chloros, "green"; pus, "foot")

In Utah: Sightings in Utah
Map of Sightings

by Jim Bailey

Other Photos  - ID / Song

Nesting,
feeding,
characteristic behaviors:
Nests in a floating or in a ground or in a shrub in a platform nest. This species is not a cowbird host. This species is an omnivore: fresh-marsh forager.
  
Habitat: Breeds in Utah in wetlands and water habitats.
  
How to find:  
 

|   USGS Profile  (Geological Survey)    |   US Winter Range Map   |   US Summer Range Map   |  
  

Occur. (RP#)

(See Legend)

Abbreviations  |  References  |  Legend  


Map of Sightings
  

Legend

 ● Confirmed Sightings
 
Unconfirmed Sightings

Sighting Records

(Updated Mar 2004)

 


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