🐾 Eurasian Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus · wildlife atlas entry

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The common moorhen ( Gallinula chloropus ) (also known as the waterhen and as the swamp chicken ) is a bird species in the family Rallidae. It is distributed across many parts of the Old World. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Eurasian Moorhen — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Alexis Lours, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alexis Lours · cc-by

Record card

Scientific name	Gallinula chloropus
Rank	species
Community observations	136,487 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Gruiformes › family Rallidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-14 · London, England, GB
(c) Jose Gutierrez Higa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2019-08-09 · Helgoland-Düne, Deutschland
(c) raheka, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Cleunay – Arsenal – Redon, Rennes, France
(c) encryptidomen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · 35650 Le Rheu, France
(c) encryptidomen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-08 · Poznań City, Greater Poland, Poland
(c) Jan Vršovský, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · cc-by-sa

Eurasian Moorhen photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Horse Guards Road, London, England, GB
(c) Luke Yeo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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