Scientific Name: Gallinula chloropus

Residency: Year-round in southern half of Arizona.

Diet: Eats seeds, grasses, small snails, and insects.

Predators: Red-tailed Hawk, Bald Eagle and Coyote, snakes eat eggs. Nests destroyed by cats.

Nesting: Nest is a platform, made of cattail stems and lined with grasses, 4-6 in. high. Eggs:  4-17 per clutch, olive-buff with dark marks, 2-3 broods per year.

Nesting Records:

Notes: Also called the Common Moorhen. The young from first broods may help with feeding later broods.

Photo: Taken at Coon Bluff on Novemebr 9, 2006. For more photos, click on camera icon.

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