1820
2300 chatham island
beak
bird
black head
blue
blue body
colony
colourful
drainage ditches
eggs
feathers
flight
fly
forested areas
gruiformes
kermadec islands
land bird
lesperance rock
long legs
mates
native
new zealand
not threatened
open grassy areas
pairs
pastures roadside
pitt islands
pkeko
pook
porphyrio melanotus temminck
pukeko
purple
purple gallinule
purple swamphen
rallidae
raoul island
red
scrub
sea level
sheltered fresh or brackish water
southwest pacific swamphen
streams or lagoons
vagrants
vegetated swamps
yellowred beak and red crown