Purple Gallinule among lily leaves
Porphyrio martinica
Purple Gallinule · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Purple Gallinule picking through the lily leaves on those absurd yellow feet in the Everglades in February, a marsh bird of the tropics that reaches Florida and the Gulf coast wherever there is floating vegetation to walk on.
Young gallinules from an earlier brood will often stay on with their parents and help feed the next clutch of chicks, cooperative breeding that is unusual among rails, most of which are solitary and territorial to the point of rarely tolerating even their own grown offspring nearby.
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