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Moorhen

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Moorhens — sometimes called marsh hens — are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). [1]

62 relations: American Ornithological Society, Australia, Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh), Australlus, Basal (phylogenetics), Bird migration, Black-tailed nativehen, Buka, Papua New Guinea, Chattian, Chronospecies, Climate change, Common gallinule, Common moorhen, Coot, Dingo, Dusky moorhen, Edgar Allan Poe, Egg, Emu (journal), Evolution, Extinction, Family (biology), Feather, Fiji, Flightless bird, Fossil, Genus, Gough moorhen, Last glacial period, Latin, Lesser moorhen, Makira woodhen, Mangaia, Marsupial, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, New Zealand, Omnivore, Parallel evolution, Passerine, Piacenzian, Pliocene, Predation, Queensland Museum, Rail (bird), Samoan woodhen, Siberia, Solomon Islands (archipelago), Southern Hemisphere, Species, Spot-flanked gallinule, ..., Storrs L. Olson, Subfossil, Subgenus, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, Swamphen, Tasmanian nativehen, The Gold-Bug, Tibiotarsus, Tribonyx, Tribonyx hodgenorum, Tristan moorhen, Villafranchian. Expand index (12 more) »

American Ornithological Society

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)

Riversleigh, in the north-west of Queensland, is Australia's most famous fossil site.

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Australlus

Australlus is an extinct genus of birds in the rail family.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

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Black-tailed nativehen

The black-tailed nativehen (Tribonyx ventralis) is a rail native to Australia.

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Buka, Papua New Guinea

Buka is located on the southern coast of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea (country).

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Chattian

The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.

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Chronospecies

A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern which involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Common gallinule

The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the family Rallidae.

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Common moorhen

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the waterhen and as the swamp chicken) is a bird species in the family Rallidae.

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Coot

Coots are small water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae.

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Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

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Dusky moorhen

The dusky moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) is a bird species in the rail family and is one of the eight extant species in the moorhen genus.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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Emu (journal)

Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union).

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Flightless bird

Flightless birds are birds that through evolution lost the ability to fly.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gough moorhen

The Gough moorhen (Gallinula comeri) is a medium-sized, almost flightless bird that is similar to the common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), but is smaller, stockier, and has shorter wings.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lesser moorhen

The lesser moorhen (Paragallinula angulata) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

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Makira woodhen

The Makira woodhen (Gallinula silvestris), also known as the Makira moorhen, is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

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Mangaia

Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Omnivore

Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.

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Parallel evolution

Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Piacenzian

The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Queensland Museum

The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, Australia.

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Rail (bird)

The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds.

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Samoan woodhen

The Samoan woodhen (Gallinula pacifica), also known as Samoan wood rail, is a nearly flightless rail endemic to the Samoan island of Savai'i, and probably extinct.

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Siberia

Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.

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Solomon Islands (archipelago)

The Solomon Islands are an archipelago in the western South Pacific Ocean, located northeast of Australia.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spot-flanked gallinule

The spot-flanked gallinule (Porphyriops melanops) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.

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Storrs L. Olson

Storrs Lovejoy Olson (born April 3, 1944) is an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008.

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Subfossil

A subfossil (as opposed to a fossil) is a bone or other part of an organism that has not fully fossilized.

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Subgenus

In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.

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Sullivan's Island, South Carolina

Sullivan's Island is a town and island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, with a population of 1,791 at the 2010 census.

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Swamphen

Porphyrio is the swamphen or swamp hen genus of birds in the rail family.

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Tasmanian nativehen

The Tasmanian nativehen (also Tasmanian native-hen or Tasmanian native hen) (Tribonyx mortierii) is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania.

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The Gold-Bug

"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843.

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Tibiotarsus

The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.

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Tribonyx

Tribonyx is a small genus, containing two extant and one extinct species of birds in the rail family, that is sometimes lumped with the moorhens in Gallinula.

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Tribonyx hodgenorum

Hodgens' waterhen or Hodgen's rail (Tribonyx hodgenorum) is an extinct rail species from New Zealand.

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Tristan moorhen

The Tristan moorhen is a species of flightless rails.

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Villafranchian

Villafranchian age is a period of geologic time (3.5—1.0 Ma) overlapping the end of the Pliocene and the beginning of the Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorhen

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