New Britain Water Purple Chicken Species Category: Chordata door -> vertebrate subphylum -> -> Aves -> this subclass Bird -> -> this jaw Head Range: to live in some parts of the southern islands of New Zealand Animal Description: New Britain, mainly living in purple water chickens as part of New Zealand's South Island region, is the most beautiful water of a chicken. New Britain, 0.47 meters long purple water, chicken, about 0.6 meters high and weighing about 1.5-2 kg. Male body covered with beautiful purple feathers, mouth and head for the red top and legs. Different colors of male and female, the body is grayish brown. Their long thin legs, which accounts for height legs for more than half of high and very suitable for walking on water plants. New Britain, although not on the purple webbed feet of water, but will swim, dive. They live in waters where lush plants, and sometimes to the surface over wide areas in search of food. Its food plant-based, but also eating some of snails and aquatic insects. Purple water is generally solitary chicken, every breeding season, male and female pairs will jointly build a field, build the nest by the male. After the female build the nest under the 5-10 eggs can be produced, a couple turns 3 weeks after hatching, chicks will be hatched, nestling in two months will fly. The New Britain island life chicken Purple water transport facilities, so very few people until the 18th century has been to develop the land here. Purple water so the chicken without any outside interference in the case, day after day, year in summer with carefree thrive. In 1804, the arrival of British immigrants, to the purple water on the island chickens and other birds brought disaster. Purple water chicken meat which is delicious because it is much favored by British immigrants. Since few people had access to the island, so the chicken does not know purple water to avoid humans, people are very easy to be caught, often all at once to capture the hundreds. British immigrants not only kill them, and also pick up their eggs. British immigrants also brought chicken cat has become the natural enemies of purple water. Because the water purple cat chicken chicken is delicious. Further development of the British islands, large areas of immigration shore plants to grow crops to make purple water chickens lost their homes, lost their hiding place, but lost to adequate food. They had to eat people planted crops, which is more to the immigrants of their hunting grounds, from 1804 to 1930 a period of two decades, tens of thousands of chickens died in the water only to immigrants purple under the gun. Since then, the purple chicken less water, to 1834, people just found a litter of purple water, chicken eggs, then that would have been found traces of purple water chicken. Beautiful purple chicken from the water forever for them to leave this bloody world. New Britain Water Purple Chicken: Extinction 1834
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Name class
【Chinese Name】 water New Britain Purple Chicken 【Alias】 Roadhouse Purple Chinese water chicken, Reunion White Dodo Latin name】 【Porphyrio albus 【Time】 named Shaw, 1790 【English name】 Lord Howe Island Swamphen, White Gallinule 【Category】 Aves families and genera, the crane-shaped head, rails Branch, purple chicken is water
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Shape features
Purple is the New Britain Water chicken a unique Lord Howe Island, Australia rails. They like the purple water, chicken, but the body and legs more than a short ton. Their body is white, and sometimes there will be some blue mottled. They may not fly. Another form of the body is completely blue, but not sure whether this species, the chicken or the purple water. Two existing specimens of the feathers are white. New Britain, mainly living in purple water chickens as part of New Zealand's South Island region, is the most beautiful water of a chicken. New Britain, 0.47 meters long purple water, chicken, about 0.6 meters high and weighing about 1.5-2 kg. Male body covered with beautiful purple feathers, mouth and head for the red top and legs. Different colors of male and female, the body is grayish brown. Their long thin legs, which accounts for height legs for more than half of high and very suitable for walking on water plants. The Purple Chicken mouth water, thick, short, flat side; nasal groove shallow and wide, small, round nose, nasal groove in the bottom of the front, a large amount of the trailing edge was _truncate_d. Wing circles, the first two, the first three and four primaries longest and nearly equal length; the first one and six or seven primaries so long. Tarsus and toes are long and powerful; can grasp and manipulate the toe of food, gender of the same type.
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Distribution
Living in New Zealand in the southern part of the island region. New Britain first, the chicken violet water described in 1790. At that time they have been very rare, but was hunted to destroy New Britain must Purple distribution of water chicken. Britain now has two new chicken Purple water samples were stored in the Liverpool and Vienna. In addition there are some pictures and sub-fossil bones.
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Population Status
Purple Water by the New Britain at New Britain purple chicken chicken water inaccessible island life, so few people until the 18th century has been to develop the land here. Purple water so the chicken without any outside interference in the case, day after day, year in summer with carefree thrive. In 1804, the arrival of British immigrants, to the purple water on the island chickens and other birds brought disaster. Purple water chicken meat which is delicious because it is much favored by British immigrants. Since few people had access to the island, so the chicken does not know purple water to avoid humans, people are very easy to be caught, often all at once to capture the hundreds. British immigrants not only kill them, and also pick up their eggs. British immigrants also brought chicken cat has become the natural enemies of purple water. Because the water purple cat chicken chicken is delicious. Further development of the British islands, large areas of immigration shore plants to grow crops to make purple water chickens lost their homes, lost their hiding place, but lost to adequate food. They had to eat people planted crops, which is more to the immigrants of their hunting grounds, from 1804 to 1930 a period of two decades, tens of thousands of chickens died in the water only to immigrants purple under the gun. Since then, the purple chicken less water, to 1834, people just found a litter of purple water, chicken eggs, then that would have been found traces of purple water chicken. Beautiful purple chicken from the water forever for them to leave this bloody world. New Britain Water Purple Chicken: Extinction 1834