Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

Common Moorhen photographed by Jess
Speke, Liverpool, England · August 10, 2026

When to look

Reported most in April, across 4.9M open records.

Records by month. January, 515,714 records. February, 424,112 records. March, 457,631 records. April, 530,937 records. May, 492,740 records. June, 312,110 records. July, 308,098 records. August, 338,432 records. September, 347,991 records. October, 383,930 records. November, 369,707 records. December, 413,188 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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