How To Use Porphyrio In A Sentence
- It is also nationally important for breeding African spoonbills (Platalea alba) and purple swamp-hens (Porphyrio porphyrio). Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
- Important breeding wetland species include marbled teal Marmaronetta angustirostris (VU,35), white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala (EN,400, which nest mainly in artificial ponds in surrounding areas), white-eyed pochard Aythya niroca (VU), purple gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio and crested coot Fulica cristata. Doñana National Park, Spain
- Species range from the large and colorful purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) to several majestic egret species. Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
- Somewhat satisfactorily, the problem of “postera crescam laude” was already knotty in the second or third century, when in his Commentum in Horatium, the North African grammarian and editor Pomponius Porphyrio tagged it with the explanatory remark: “Eleganter, quia semper sunt, quibus haec elocutio noua sit et laudetur.” Postera crescam laude II
- Some few have neither a crop nor a dilated oesophagus, but the latter is exceedingly long, as in long necked birds, such as the porphyrio, and, by the way, in the case of all these birds the excrement is unusually moist. The History of Animals
- Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) and Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana). The Jakarta Post Breaking News
- Key fauna protection programs run by the Department of Conservation in the area focus on species present on the predator-free islands, including tuatara, native frogs, kakapo (Strigops habroptilus CR), the endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), and little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii VU). Richmond temperate forests
- Important breeding wetland species include marbled teal Marmaronetta angustirostris (VU,35), white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala (EN,400, which nest mainly in artificial ponds in surrounding areas), white-eyed pochard Aythya niroca (VU), purple gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio and crested coot Fulica cristata. Doñana National Park, Spain
- The takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is just one of New Zealand's spectacular endemic birds. Biological diversity in New Zealand
- (Leviticus 11: 18; 14: 16) where it occurs in the list of unclean birds Rut either of the renderings "porphyrio" (purple water-hen) and "ibis" is more probable. Smith's Bible Dictionary
