| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Aves
- --- order: Gruiformes
- ---- family: Heliornithidae
- ----- species: Podica senegalensis
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| Characteristics: | omnivore; body-length: 63 cm; black plumage spotted with white on th back; white plumage with some grey on the belly; red legs and bill |
| Countries: |
- BJ
- Benin
- BW
- Botswana
- CM
- Cameroon
- GA
- Gabon
- GH
- Ghana
- GM
- Gambia
- GN
- Guinea
- KE
- Kenya
- NA
- Namibia
- SL
- Sierra Leone
- SZ
- Swaziland
- TZ
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- UG
- Uganda
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZM
- Zambia
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0102
- Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
- AT0107
- Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
- AT0108
- East African montane forests
- AT0111
- Eastern Guinean forests
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0126
- Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
- AT0704
- Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
- AT0707
- Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0716
- Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0721
- Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0722
- West Sudanian savanna
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1013
- Rwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands
- AT1403
- Guinean mangroves
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| References: | Sinclair 1994: 102 |
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