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Gough Moorhen
Gallinula comeri
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
Swoop
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
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Wikapialpha version
Gough Moorhen
Gallinula comeri
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
Gallinula comeri
Photo: © A.J.Beintema (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The Gough moorhen (Gallinula comeri) is a medium-sized, almost flightless bird that is similar to the common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), but is smaller, stockier, and has shorter wings. The bird has a distinctive yellow-tipped red bill and red frontal shield.
Its first account was written in 1888 by the polar explorer George Comer, whom the specific name comeri commemorates.
This bird is found only on two remote islands in the South Atlantic.
The Gough moorhen was originally endemic to Gough Island, but in 1956 was introduced to Tristan da Cunha, an island in the same archipelago which was formerly home of the now extinct Tristan moorhen (Galinula nesiotis). On the basis of DNA sequencing of both recently collected and historical material from both of the archipelago's moorhen species, Groenenberg et al (2008) concluded that the genetic distances between G. nesiotis and G. comeri are of at least the same size as those found between subspecies of common moorhen (G. chloropus) in the literature. They propose that the extinct moorhen of Tristan (G. nesiotis) and the moorhens that live on Gough and Tristan today (G. comeri) be regarded as subspecies: Gallinula nesiotis nesiotis and Gallinula nesiotis comeri.
Abridged excerpt from the Wikipedia article Gough moorhen, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.
Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 49