purple swamphen

purple swamphen

English

purple swamp hen

Wikispecies

Noun

purple swamphen (plural purple swamphens)

1. A species of the Rallidae family, Porphyrio porphyrio.

Synonyms

• African purple swamphen
• purple coot
• purple gallinule
• purple moorhen
• sultana bird

Translations

Porphyrio porphyrio

Dutch: sultanshoen n Esperanto: purpura porfirio Finnish: sulttaanikana (fi) French: poule sultane (fr) f, talève sultane (fr) f German: Purpurhuhn

Hungarian: kék fú Italian: pollo sultano m Latin: porphirio f Maori: pūkeko Norwegian: sultanhøne