我的鸟类图鉴收藏之马来西亚: Grey-headed Swamphen 灰头紫水鸡

Friday, October 28, 2022

Grey-headed Swamphen 灰头紫水鸡

Order - Gruiformes 鹤形目

Family - Rallidae 秧鸡科

Grey-headed Swamphen

Porphyrio poliocephalus

灰头紫水鸡 (huī tóu zǐ shuǐ-jī)

Malay 马来语 : Panglin Biasa

Japanese 日语 : ハイガシラセイケイ (hai-gashira seikei)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 灰頭青鶏

Taxonomy update for 2015

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) is split into six species with these ranges: Western Swamphen (western Europe and northwestern Africa); Black-backed Swamphen (Southeast Asia); African Swamphen (Africa,
mostly south of the Sahara, north to Egypt and Israel); Australasian Swamphen (Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific islands);
Philippine Swamphen (Philippines); Gray-headed Swamphen
(central Asia, from eastern Turkey through India to Myanmar
and northern Thailand; introduced to Florida) :

- Western Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)

- Black-backed Swamphen (Porphyrio indicus)
- African Swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis)
- Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)
- Philippine Swamphen (Porphyrio pulverulentus)
- Grey-headed Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)

2018 eBird Taxonomy Update

SUBSPECIES RESHUFFLES

When subspecies move around between species, this can have effects like splits or lumps.
Thus, for a certain population within a species, the movement of the subspecies from one
to another has important data quality implications and can significantly change the range
of both species.

Grey-headed Swamphen and Black-backed Swamphen: Subspecies vididis, previously
classified under Black-backed Swamphen Porphyrio indicus, properly belongs with
Grey-headed Swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus. This results in a major change in the
range of the two taxa, since viridis occupied an extensive range in Southeast Asia,
including Malaysia, s. Myanmar, s. Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and southeastern
China. Now, that range is occupied by Grey-headed Swamphen, and Black-backed
Swamphen is restricted to Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and Sulawesi.

体长 : 38 - 50 厘米

Subspecies and Distribution 亚种 & 地理分布

Porphyrio poliocephalus poliocephalus (Latham, 1801)
– India and Sri Lanka through Bangladesh, Andamans, Nicobars and N Myanmar to SC China (Yunnan) and N Thailand.
Porphyrio poliocephalus caspius (E. J. O. Hartert, 1917)
– Caspian Sea, NW Iran and Turkey.
Porphyrio poliocephalus seistanicus (Zarudny & Härms, 1911)
– Iraq and S Iran to Afghanistan, Pakistan and NW India.
Porphyrio poliocephalus viridis (Begbie, 1834)
– S Myanmar, S Thailand, Indochina and Peninsular Malaysia.