Porphyrio melanotus

Australasian Swamphen at Lord Howe Island

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Location information

• Coordinates 159.076658-31.545672
• Altitude 50.3m
• Maps Lord Howe Island
• Places Lord Howe Island, NSW

Sighting information

• 3 Abundance
• 22 Oct 2023 10:33 AM Recorded on
• Darcy Recorded by

• Collections

  Darcy New South Wales North Coast NatureMapr Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds Birds

Species information

• Porphyrio melanotus Scientific name
• Australasian Swamphen Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local native
• Non-invasive or negligible
• Up to 796.5m Recorded at altitude
• 323 images trained Machine learning

• Synonyms

  Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio porphyrio

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• More than one media file
• Verified by an expert moderator
• Nearby sighting(s) of same species
• GPS evidence of location
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