African Swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis)
About the African Swamphen
The African swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis) is a species of swamphen occurring in Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It used to be considered a subspecies of the western swamphen, which it resembles, but with bronze green or green-blue back and scapulars. It also resembles the grey-headed swamphen of Asia, sharing the greenish back with it, but lacking the paler grey head of that species.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 33 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Australasian SwamphenPorphyrio melanotusrecording
- Grey-headed SwamphenPorphyrio poliocephalusrecording
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinicarecording
- Western SwamphenPorphyrio porphyriorecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.