tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Purple Swamphen

These are quite large birds (45-50cm). Purple Swamphens are common throughout eastern and northern Australia, with a separate subspecies in the extreme south-west of the continent.

These are common across most of the less arid areas in Australia. Explored.

These wander around constantly in our area. My neighbour calls them "Darth Vader Chooks" , though I doubt that's the scientific term. LOL Ignore the 400mm in the EXIF info, I forgot to reset the camera (manual input), this was taken with the 200mm/3.5 RMC Tokina.