Purple Gallinule
Porphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766) (0, 3)
Photo © By Frank Schulenburg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39823156
STATUS
Nearctic. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
The first record was of an individual found lying in a gutter in Hugh Town’s main street by Miss M. Hughes on her way to work. She took it in and sent for a local birder who fed it earthworms but the emaciated body soon gave way (Robinson 2003).
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1958 Isles of Scilly Hugh Town, St Mary's, immature, picked up exhausted, 7th November, died 9th November, photo, now at Natural History Museum, Tring (NHM 1958.2.7).
(Eds., British Birds 53: 145-146, plate I; G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 53: 164; K. Williamson & I. J. Ferguson-Lees, British Birds 53: 371; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 42).
2). 2008 Bedfordshire Southill Park, Old Warden, found dead, immature, April or May, photo, now at Natural History Museum, Tring.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 102: 550).
3). 2011 Devon Horndon, Mary Tavy, first-winter, found dead, 24th January, photo.
(Birding World 24 (1): 7, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 105: 572; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 588).
P). 2022 Somerset Dunster, 16th November, photo, video.
(birding information services).
