Common name
Purple Swamphen
Alternate name
Australasian Purple Swamphen, Purple Gallinule
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Local distribution
Widespread in terrestrial wetlands and adjacent grasslands. Occasionally found in estuarine or littoral wetlands
Known location
Coomera, Carrara, Bundall, Mudgeeraba, Hope Island, Reedy Creek, Eagleby, Guanaba, Pimpama, Coombaba
Other locality
Common on the margins of lagoons and other wetlands, including artifical wetlands and dams in disturbed and near urban areas. Considered to be common in Gold Coast area.
General ecology
Lagoons, swamps, sluggish rivers, dams, park ponds.
Specific ecology
Still or sluggish water and fringing bullrushes or other ranke vegetation.
Habitat comment
Adapts well to human-made wetlands such as ponds in parks and large farm dams with fringing bullrushes.
