I have photographed the Purple swamphen in Spain - but never as close as here in the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary. Also, when I photographed it the first time, all Purple swamphens were considered to be one and the same species. But in 2015, the species split into several new species, including this Asian species named the Grey-headed swamphen. I knew that Purple swamphens were big, but here, compared to so many other rails and coots, it seemed huge (almost half a meter long).