Birds of Note

All Records For Purple Gallinule

Purple Gallinule	1999	Oct-Dec	Erie	1 on 10/14-16 at Presque Isle SP (Jerry McWilliams) was a first county record and the first state record since 1988
Purple Gallinule	2006	Aug-Nov	Lehigh	One juvenile on 9/30-mid-October at a small pond near Macungie (Lee Levengood). This was a first for Lehigh County and the 11th record for Pennsylvania.
Purple Gallinule	2010	Mar-May	York	one at an undisclosed location 5/31 (fide Peter Robinson, doc submitted).
Purple Gallinule	2010	Aug-Nov	Adams	one juvenile at SGL 249 on 10/12 (Mike Weible, doc submitted) was not seen thereafter
Purple Gallinule	2010	Aug-Nov	McKean	one juvenile in a residential neighborhood in Kane 10/19-24 (ph. Rocky Holland, eBird, doc submitted).
Purple Gallinule	2011	Aug-Nov	Erie	one immature at Long Pond on Presque Isle 10/9 (Brian Morse, Brian Berchtold, ph., doc submitted).
Purple Gallinule	2011	Mar-May	Berks	one at Hay Creek Reservoir 5/25 (Russ Hoffman, doc submitted)
Purple Gallinule	2011	Mar-May	Erie	one at Presque Isle State Park 4/30-5/18 (Brian Berchtold, m.ob., doc submitted).
Purple Gallinule	2014	Mar-May	Cumberland	an adult at the Tichy Park Ponds in Mount Holly 5/10-22 (Mark Markiewicz, Paul Banks, et al., doc submitted), first county record.
Purple Gallinule	2016	Aug-Nov	Beaver	one juv. at Ambridge Res 10/7-10 (Mark Vass, doc submitted) represented a county first and a first for western Pennsylvania away from Erie.
Purple Gallinule	2017	Jun-Jul	Philadelphia	one was found in the John Heinz NWR at Tinicum, in the impoundment 6/16 (Kurt Hummel, ph.), with a photo posted in Flickr, but local birders were not aware of this rarity and it was not re-sighted in the thick vegetation.
Purple Gallinule	2019	Aug-Nov	Philadelphia	one imm. at John Heinz N.W.R. 9/14-26 (Richard Horwitz, doc submitted).
Purple Gallinule	2021	Aug-Nov	Centre	one freshly dead of apparent window collision at auto parts store in Millheim 11/6 (Susan Haney, doc submitted).