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Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa), Mauritius🐦

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SpeciesGruiformesRallidae
Birds

🐦Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)

黑水鸡（學名：Gallinula chloropus）为秧鸡科黑水雞屬的鸟类，又名红冠水鸡、水鵁鴒（臺羅：tsuí-ka-līng）、烏水雞（臺羅：oo-tsuí-ke）、田雞仔（臺羅：tshân-ke-á）。分佈在古北界的許多地區，從非洲到歐洲和亞洲。该物种遍布世界各地，模式产地在英格兰。 紅冠水雞生活在植被茂密的沼澤、池塘、運河和其他濕地附近。 該物種不分佈於極地地區或許多熱帶雨林。在其他地方，除了某些地區的白冠雞，它可能是最常見的秧雞物種。 與其密切相關的普通美洲秧雞，分佈於新北界，自2011年以來已被大多數權威機構，從美國鳥類學家聯合會和國際鳥類學委員會開始，認定為一個獨立的物種。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.34 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Moorhen

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.34 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.39 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.17 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
19 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
19 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 9
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Moorhen yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGruiformes
  5. ›familyRallidae
  6. ›genusGallinula
  7. ›speciesGallinula chloropus
Full lineage
  1. superclassSarcopterygii
  2. superclassTetrapoda
  3. orderSauria
  4. classBirds · Aves
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Coot — last shared an ancestor ≈ 14 million years ago.
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rörhöna (sv), Teichralle (de), Waterhoen (nl), バン (ja), 黑水鸡 (zh), Gallineta común (es) … and 26 more languages
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