Purple Gallinule Songs and Calls

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Purple Gallinule: Anxiety call is a shrill cry, more trumpeting and less nasal than Common. • Advertising call is a laughing cackle, more resonant and clucking than Common Gallinule. • Gives a variety of short nasal clucks and pops, similar to Common.

Anxiety call:

Advertising call:

Short calls:

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