Purple Swamphen in Birdata

[L&L Knight <>]

Have multigrips, will travel.

On 16/05/2009, at 7:43 AM, John Leonard wrote:

> Purple Swamphens have a huge range, from Spain to South Africa to the
> Philippines and Palau to Fiji and Samoa.
>
> I'm quite sure no-one needed to introduce them to Lord Howe and
> Norfolk Islands, all that was needed was for humans to clear forest
> and create open grassland, and they were away!
>
> And they, or an ancestral species and the modern form, must have
> colonised New Zealand twice: the first colonisation resulted in the
> Takahe, the second was recent, as NZ birds are sub-specifically
> identical to Aus birds still.
>
> John Leonard
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