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The 33 cm long pygmy sultan chicken resembles the water rail in appearance and behaviour. However, with its ultramarine blue plumage with green back, green wings and white undercoat, red beak with yellow tip, blue forehead shield and long yellow legs, it is by far the more striking bird. The young bird is brown in colour and has claws on its wings, which allow it to climb in the bushes, but which disappear with age and which is a rare but very interesting indication of the dinosaur ancestry of today's birds. Otherwise these claws can only be found in hoatzin chicks. The pygmy sultan chicken is not an agile flyer, but it usually flares up when suddenly disturbed. At short flight distances it dangles its legs.
Het Amerikaans purperhoen (Porphyrio martinica) is a bird from the family of the rallen, cooks and waterhoentjes (Rallidae).
The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) is a "swamp hen" in the rail family Rallidae. Also known locally as the Yellow-legged Gallinule.
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Christiane W. Schulze was born in Dortmund / Germany
From 2003 - 2007 she studied Art.
Since 2007..
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