{"id":192637,"date":"2015-10-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e7f6085fb3e571e5f24be23718303661"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:48:28","slug":"purple-swamhens-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/purple-swamhens-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Swamphens in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio has been split into five species by IOC 5.3 largely in accordance with Sangster 1998 and Garcia & Trewick 2015 into 5 species.<\/p>\n

These splits will be followed by OSME and means that Grey-headed Swamphen P. poliocephalus is by far the main species in the Region, comprising the nominate, caspius and seistanicus, though the validity of the last two is still debated.<\/p>\n

Swamphens from Saudi Arabia now comprise both breeding Grey-headed Swamphens in the Eastern Province and African Swamphen P. madagascariensis which is a Vvgrant with two records.<\/p>\n

A record of an adult at KAUST near Jeddah in September 2013 remained for at least three weeks before being killed by a car and two together at Dhahran percolation pond in December 2014 for several days.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Garcia-Ramirez, JC and SA Trewick. 2015. Dispersal and speciation in purple swamphens (Rallidae: Porphyrio). Auk 132: 140-155.<\/p>\n

Sangster, G. 1998. Purple Swamp-hen is a complex of species. Dutch Birding 20:13-22.<\/p>\n

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Grey-headed Swamphen – DNA sampleanalysedto confirm the subspecies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio has been split into five species by IOC 5.3 largely in accordance with Sangster 1998 and Garcia & Trewick 2015 into 5 species. These splits will be followed by OSME and means that Grey-headed Swamphen P. poliocephalus is by far the main species in the Region, comprising the nominate, caspius and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-VjajgSgpjzk\/Vc8u-F5nqkI\/AAAAAAAAVhg\/jRXkU7XDFf8\/s1600\/Grey-headed_Swamphen.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1676,388,3108],"class_list":["post-192637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-porphyrio-porphyrio","tag-purple-swamphen","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}