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Fifth and last ID request

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Posted by Barbara Graham on July 18, 2016 at 4:34 PM
Fifth and last ID request
I called this one Common Gallinules or Moorhens.
Posted by Luke Ormand on July 18, 2016 at 6:57 PM
Correct - this looks like hen and chick 
Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 18, 2016 at 10:10 PM
Yup, moorhens - lots of these funny, baldy,  red-skinned babies around here in DelRay, Fl  (visiting ill parents) 
Sandy 
Posted by Richard Ditch on July 18, 2016 at 11:01 PM
The larger bird is a juvie Common Gallinule. Adult birds look the same irrespective of sex.

I've never seen a Gallinule chick but I know American Coot chicks look like this so gallinule chicks could as well.

 
Posted by Luke Ormand on July 20, 2016 at 10:33 AM
Also just to clarify - "common gallinule" and "common moorhen" are one in the same.