Measurements: Length: 12.6-13.8 in (32-35 cm) Weight: 10.9-16.1 oz (310-456 g) Wingspan: 21.3-24.4 in (54-62 cm)

What does a Common Gallinule look like?

Common Gallinules are mostly charcoal gray birds with a white stripe down their sides and white outer tail feathers. Adults have a bright red shield on their forehead and a red bill tipped in yellow. Immature birds look similar to adults, but lack the red shield and bill.

What is the difference between a moorhen and a gallinule?

As nouns the difference between gallinule and moorhen

is that gallinule is several species of birds in the genera porphyrio'' and ''gallinula of the family rallidae while moorhen is any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus gallinula , of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.