The African Purple Swamphen (Latin name Porphyrio madagascariensis) is described in Roberts Birds of Southern Africa, 7th Edition. This bird has a unique Roberts number of 223 and you will find a full description of this bird on page 330 also a picture of the African Purple Swamphen on page 305. The African Purple Swamphen belongs to the family of birds classified as Rallidae. According to the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology the African Purple Swamphen is also known by these other names: Purple Swamphen, King Reedhen.
In the previous edition of Roberts (ie 6th edition) the African Purple Swamphen was called the Purple Gallinule. The Robert's 7 Latin name for African Purple Swamphen has changed from Porphyrio porphyrio in Robert's 6 to Porphyrio madagascariensis.
The map of the Kruger you see on this page shows the areas (coloured orange) where this bird has been identified. The basic information was provided by the Avian Demographic Unit based at UCT and I created the maps from that information ... the green dots show the locations of the various Kruger National Park Rest Camps
The African Purple Swamphen is neither Endemic or near Endemic to the Kruger National Park.
In terms of distribution of the African Purple Swamphen in the Kruger National Park you may not see it in all areas. African Purple Swamphen has been recorded in only 1 sections of the arbitrary Kruger Park regions I selected.
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