Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Length 33 cm. A medium-sized waterbird with blackish plumage, narrow white flank stripe, white under-tail coverts, green legs, and a distinctive red frontal shield and a yellow-tipped red bill. The juvenile is brown with white under-tail coverts, dull green bill, and brown frontal shield. The Moorhen is an aquatic species that is rarely found far from fresh water. It favors wetlands with still or slow-moving water with floating plants and reed beds. It is omnivorous, feeding on freshwater plants, seeds, small invertebrates, and small fish. Active during both day and night; it swims, climbs, and perches well. This bird is monogamous; it nests in reed beds and even on floating water plants and makes a cup-shaped nest of twigs lined with leaves. The 5-7 eggs are incubated for 17-22 days by both parents. In Egypt, the moorhen is a common breeding resident found in the marshes and canals in the Nile Valley and Delta, the Suez Canal, and El-Fayium.