Moorhen - yellow-billed Gallinula chloropus

yellow-billed moorhens
yellow-billed moorhen
These Moorhens are the usual common species but are lacking red pigment, giving them all-yellow beaks and face plates (except for pinkish tinge round nostril) instead of part red beak and red face shield; they also lack the red garter on the legs.
yellow-billed moorhens
yellow-billed moorhens
yellow-billed moorhens
They were building a nest, so it will be interesting to see if it is a genetic trait and the chicks have the same lack of red.
yellow-billed moorhen The pinkish tinge round the nostril.
yellow-billed moorhen Collecting nesting material.
yellow-billed moorhen A regular red-billed Moorhen chases off the strange-looking one.
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yellow-billed moorhen
yellow-billed moorhen
A decade later and there is at least one yellow-billed moorhen still around.
yellow-billed moorhen
yellow-billed moorhen
yellow-billed moorhen
Out on the lake is another with her regular, red-and-yellow-billed chick.
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