Common Moorhen
Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, C 1758)
| Species name | Recordist | Date | Location | Remarks | Cat.nr. |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Nelson Conceição | 2019-01-14 | Santiago (near Tavira), Tavira, Faro, Alcoutim (Portugal) (10 m) | call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
452357 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Carlos W. | 2016-02-04 | Área Metropolitana de Sevilla (near La Puebla del Río), Sevilla, Andalucía, Sevilla (Spain) (0 m) | call - This was recorded at night in a big but shallow lake with plenty of shore vegetation. (The high pitch calls in the back ground don't belong to the common moorhen). bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
303339 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Tanguy Loïs | 2022-04-15 | Raizeux, Yvelines, Île-de-France, Yvelines (France) (130 m) | nocturnal flight call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
715650 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Tristan Guillebot de Nerville | 2022-03-04 | Trunvel, Tréogat, Finistere, Brittany, Finistère (France) (0 m) | adult, call, sex uncertain - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
720905 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Nelson Conceição | 2020-02-03 | Conceição de Tavira, Tavira, Faro, Alcoutim (Portugal) (10 m) | call - Recorder: Zoom H1n. Windscreen: Zoom WSU-1 Editing: Audacity (High-pass filter 250Hz/6dB, sound normalized to -3dB). bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
527806 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Cureau Hervé | 2022-05-27 | Arrondissement du Blanc (near Saint-Michel-en-Brenne), Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, Indre (France) (90 m) | adult, call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
731319 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Stanislas Wroza | 2020-03-01 | Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne, Île-de-France, Essonne (France) (70 m) | call, rolled call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
534749 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Fabien H | 2022-03-06 | Arrondissement de Compiègne (near Candor), Oise, Hauts-de-France, Oise (France) (70 m) | nocturnal flight call - Nocmig : enregistreur Zoom H5, micros omnidirectionnels (stéréo), high pass filter 500 Hz Habitat : village, openfields, boisements bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
721056 xeno-canto.org |
| Eurasian Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Mark Plummer | 2025-02-28 | , Rutland (United Kingdom) | - | 631954745 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Vandousselaere Patrick | 2025-02-17 | Arrondissement Brugge (near Brugge), West-Vlaanderen, Vlaams Gewest, West Flanders (Belgium) (10 m) | nocturnal flight call - [sono] | 973747 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | julien Rochefort | 2021-04-20 | Forêt de Sénart (near Montgeron), Essonne, Île-de-France, Essonne (France) (90 m) | nocturnal flight call - Best calls at 1:10. bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
641538 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Tanguy Loïs | 2022-04-15 | Raizeux, Yvelines, Île-de-France, Yvelines (France) (130 m) | nocturnal flight call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
715646 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Paul Kelly | 2025-03-02 | Tacumshin Lake (East End), County Wexford, Wexford (Ireland) (0 m) | nocturnal flight call, Ocean. - Nocturnal.
|
977858 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Teet Sirotkin | 2014-04-12 | Kallerö, Östhammar, Uppland, Uppsala (Sweden) (10 m) | flight call - Migrating over water during night. bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
175031 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Thierry THOMAS | 2022-05-09 | Montpellier, Hérault, Occitanie, Hérault (France) (40 m) | nocturnal flight call - [sono] | 838357 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Adam Gruszczyński | 2025-04-21 | "Torfowisko Lis" (near Wolica), Powiat kaliski, Województwo wielkopolskie, Kalisz (City) (Poland) (110 m) | call - Habitat: wet reed bed. One of many recordings of a common moorhen in this place during the same breeding season.
|
1039093 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Esperanza Poveda | 2025-05-21 | El Condado (near El Rocío), Huelva, Andalusia, Hinojos (Spain) (0 m) | call - Marisma somera con vegetación baja y betas de tierra de diversos tamaños donde anidan las aves acuáticas.
|
1066279 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Esperanza Poveda | 2025-05-22 | El Condado (near Choza de Huerta Tejada), Sevilla, Andalucía, Hinojos (Spain) (0 m) | call - Ancho canal con tarays y otra vegetación en las orillas y abundantes plantas sumergidas.
|
1068144 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | jesus carrion | 2020-06-18 | Marjal dels Moros (Sagunt), Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia (Spain) (0 m) | Prrru call, call - Entorno de carrizal y lámina de aguas someras con algunos Tamarix aislados. bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
570327 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Paul Kelly | 2025-12-02 | Coddstown, Wexford, County Wexford, Wexford (Ireland) (0 m) | call - Nocturnal.
|
1064194 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Joost van Bruggen | 2018-03-15 | Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Gelderland (Netherlands) (10 m) | flight call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
406139 xeno-canto.org |
| Eurasian Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | African Bioacoustics Community | 2026-03-09 | , Western Cape (South Africa) | - | 652573111 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Will Scott | 2023-02-12 | Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, East Riding of Yorkshire (United Kingdom) (70 m) | flight call, nocturnal flight call - [sono] | 779959 xeno-canto.org |
| Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus | Teet Sirotkin | 2021-04-21 | Solberga, Stockholm (Sweden) (40 m) | nocturnal flight call - bird-seen:no playback-used:no
|
641152 xeno-canto.org |
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