Porphyrio alleni2025-06-10T09:32:05+00:00

Porphyrio alleni   Allen’s Gallinule   Kleinkoningriethaan

Lephalale, Dec 2019
juvenile

Modimolle area, Jan 2016
male above, juvenile below

A vagrant. Rare (recorded in 2% of the Waterberg pentads). On the nearby Nyl floodplain thousands of birds arrive from the tropics to breed in years of high rainfall, present here Dec to Apr; the occasional records from the Waterberg are likely spill-overs from this influx.