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Description: | The Purple Gallinule is the largest rail in Europe, and its bright colours make it an unmistakable bird. In Europe it lives in a few scattered coastal marshes and estuaries, mainly in Spain and the Balearic Islands where populations are threatened by hunting. It is generally very secretive and rarely emerges from dense cover. Its very large toes allow it to climb vertically up the stems of reeds and to walk across the water surface on lilly pads.
Part: base, Material: wood
, Age: adult, Form: mount | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.26776 | Go to resource |
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