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title: "Modrzyk afrykański"
description: "Porphyrio madagascariensis — Ptaki. The African swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis) is a species of swamphen occurring in Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/african-swamphen
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Modrzyk afrykański

> Porphyrio madagascariensis — Ptaki. The African swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis) is a species of swamphen occurring in Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.

- Scientific name: *Porphyrio madagascariensis*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 1952
- Wikidata: [Q4862280](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4862280)
- iNaturalist taxon: [474333](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/474333)

## Names

- en: African Swamphen
- de: Afrikanisches Purpurhuhn
- es: Calamón Africano
- fr: Talève d'Afrique
- nl: Smaragdpurperkoet
- pt: Caimão-comum
- pl: Modrzyk afrykański

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1331), EG (147), UG (84), SN (49), TZ (39), NA (35), KE (31), GM (29), ZM (23), BW (18), MW (18), IL (16)

## Summary

The African swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis) is a species of swamphen occurring in Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It used to be considered a subspecies of the western swamphen, which it resembles, but with bronze green or green-blue back and scapulars. It also resembles the grey-headed swamphen of Asia, sharing the greenish back with it, but lacking the paler grey head of that species.
The African Swamphen is a mainly sedentary species that can be found in sub-Saharan Africa, including southern Africa, where it is sometimes locally common, and also along the Nile north to the Nile Delta in Egypt. It…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swamphen

## Photo

![Modrzyk afrykański](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/african-swamphen/medium.jpg)

Photo: lallen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190630599

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/african-swamphen?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).