Bengali: বেগুনি কালেম
Scientific Name: Porphyrio poliocephalus
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: It has silky purple-blue plumage with metallic gloss on throat and breast, contrasting with the white undertail coverts. It has heavy red bill and frontal shield and pinkish-red legs and feet with long toes. The tail is flicked up and down.
Food: They take soft shoots of reeds and rushes and small animals, such as frogs and snails.
Habitat: Inhabitant of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes.
Distribution: It is found in Middle East, through the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand.
