SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS
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Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club         Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert         Trinidad and Tobago Rare Bird Committee
VIRGIN ISLANDS
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)
Subadult (note patches of brown feathering, especially on head) at Turpentine Run, St. Thomas, 18 May 2003. Photo © by Floyd Hayes. Second record for St. Thomas. The first was a juvenile at Mahogany Run, St. Thomas, 24 Nov 1981, reported by: Norton, R. L. 1982. West Indies region. American Birds 36:223-224.