Thailand

Gray-headed Swamphen

From the Middle East and the Indian
subcontinent to southern China and
northern Thailand...introduced into
No. Amer. in 1990s

Siang Saen Lake

25Mar2016

Porphyrio means waterhen;

poliocephalus means grey head.

Invertebrates and slugs and such they eat

The water birds with big and ugly feet

You know them by their wild and distinct cry

And their legs are always dangling as they fly.

(Francis Duggan)