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moorhen
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moorhen: see rail rail, common name for some members of the large family Rallidae, marsh and tropical forest birds that include the gallinule and the coot , two specialized rails. Rails are cosmopolitan in distribution, except in polar regions.
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moorhen

 or common gallinule

Bird of the migratory gallinule species (Gallinula chloropus, family Rallidae) of Europe, Africa, and eastern North America. Moorhens are blackish and have a scarlet frontal shield (fleshy plate on the forehead). In North America, the moorhen is sometimes called the Florida gallinule.
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Biologists have found dozens of bird species that catch interloper eggs from different species, but only a few--some ostriches, weaverbirds, moorhens, and now coots--with defenses against sneaks of their own species.
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