Common Gallinule

Taxonomy

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae

Genus

Gallinula

eBird Code

comgal1

Subspecies (7)

• Gallinula galeata barbadensis

  Barbados

• Gallinula galeata cachinnans

  breeds southwestern USA and southeastern Canada southward to western Panama, Bermuda, and Galapagos; withdraws from most of eastern North America in winter

• Gallinula galeata cerceris

  Greater and Lesser Antilles

• Gallinula galeata galeata

  Venezuela, Trinidad, and the Guianas southward to northern Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil

• Gallinula galeata garmani

  Andes of Peru to Chile, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina

• Gallinula galeata pauxilla

  eastern Panama to northern and western Colombia, arid western Ecuador, and northwestern Peru

• Gallinula galeata sandvicensis

  Hawaiian Islands