But the moorhen is two birds killed with one act of kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Hutchinson on Jeramy Dodds] Reference

But the birds were there -- purple moorhen, jacanas and teals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of Baikka Beel (Sylhet Division)] Reference

Two endemic landbirds are found: the Gough moorhen and the Gough finch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference

A moorhen gave its piercing, startled call once, then again in rapid succession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

A race of the common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) may also be a threatened subspecies, depending on its origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yap tropical dry forests] Reference

From the mere where the moorhen now swims unafraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference

Such a comparison would have been an insult to the moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference

Ducklings, cygnets and moorhen chicks - fluffy balls of cuteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Gravel Bridge - but it has been delayed because a moorhen is nesting there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peterborough Today - News Feed] Reference

But when inspectors visited the site, they discovered a moorhen had nested there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peterborough Today - News Feed] Reference

From the sedges came the curious cry of the moorhen; a bright kingfisher went by.    From Wordnik.com.  [After London Or, Wild England] Reference

Directly afterwards a moorhen swam out, and began to search among the edge of the tangled weeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

Carefully looking over that side again, the moorhen who had been out rushed back; the water-rat was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

With the ducks come teal and widgeon and moorhen, till the swampy meadow resounds with their strange cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Poacher] Reference

Wrens were churring from the bramble thickets, a moorhen clucked in alarm from the reeds as we got to the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

A purple moorhen suddenly took umbrage and ran, screaming, across the lotus leaves that covered the water around the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogocentricity] Reference

"It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name," he observed, grinning broadly at a moorhen that emerged from the bridge's shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

'It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name, 'he observed, grinning broadly at a moorhen that emerged from the bridge's shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dry-fly Fisherman] Reference

Meet Ugly, his mum Ida, dad Drake and his four duckling sisters, together with a host of ducks, geese, chickens, a turkey and a moorhen.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I've made a moorhen and rabbit-pie to celebrate it, "declared Mrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference

O 'nights were after higher game than the moorhen or the woodcock!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference

O you can’t tell someone just how lonely he is, but a moorhen sure can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Hutchinson on Jeramy Dodds] Reference

"Why, that looks like wagging your tail like a moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

Boli kodi ... .. moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

To house with snipe and moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Simple being a moorhen, I thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rat Race]

Oft like a moorhen scuttling to the reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference

Till the moorhen calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Jambri kodi .... moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

A well insulated moorhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference