Diet Overlap

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (Capybara)
Porphyrio martinica (Purple Gallinule)

Common Diet

Hymenachne amplexicaulis (West Indian marsh grass)
Oryza sativa (rice)
Pontederia crassipes (common water hyacinth)

Common Habitat

Alta Paraná Atlantic forests
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests
Araucaria moist forests
Atlantic Coast restingas
Atlantic dry forests
Atlantic Forest
Bahia coastal forests
Bahia interior forests
Bañados del Este
Barro Colorado Island
Beni savanna
Caatinga
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
Caqueta moist forests
Catatumbo moist forests
Cerrado
Cerrado
Chiquitano dry forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests
Cordillera La Costa montane forests
Cordillera Oriental montane forests
Dry Chaco
Eastern Panamanian montane forests
El Palmar
Espinal
Estacion Biologica Beni
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests
Guianan moist forests
Guianan savanna
Gurupa varzea
Humid Chaco
Humid Pampas
Iquitos varzea
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests
Itabó Biological Reserve
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests
La Costa xeric shrublands
Llanos
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
Madidi National Park
Magdalena Valley dry forests
Magdalena Valley montane forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve
Maracá Ecological Reserve
Maracaibo dry forests
Marajó varzea
Maranhao Babatu forests
Mato Grosso seasonal forests
Mesoamerica
Monte Alegre varzea
Napo moist forests
Negro-Branco moist forests
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Northeastern Brazil restingas
Northwestern Andean montane forests
Orinoco Delta swamp forests
Orinoco wetlands
Panamanian dry forests
Pantanal
Pantepuis
Paraguana xeric scrub
Paraná flooded savanna
Parque Nacional Iguazú
Pernambuco coastal forests
Pernambuco interior forests
Purus varzea
Purus-Madeira moist forests
Reserva Natural Otamendi
Reserve de Biosphere Cerrado
Rio Negro campinarana
Río Negro National Park
Río Pilcomayo National Park
San Rafael, Reserva de Recursos Manejados
Santa Marta montane forests
Serra do Mar coastal forests
Sinú Valley dry forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest
Southern Andean Yungas
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna
Southwest Amazon moist forests
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests
Tropical Andes
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests
Ucayali moist forests
Uruguayan savanna
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Animals of the Rainforest
♦ 2FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE PURPLE GALLINULE (Porphyrula martinica) IN THE CENTRAL LLANOS OF VENEZUELA, Zaida Tárano, Stuart Strahl and Juhani Ojasti, ECOTROPICOS 8(1-2): 53-61. 1995
♦ 3HABITOS DE DESPLAZAMIENTO Y DIETA DEL CAPIBARA (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) EN LA AMAZONIA COLOMBIANA, Maria C. Arteaga, Jeffrey P. Jorgenson, Mastozoología Neotropical, 14(1):11-17, Mendoza, 2007
♦ 4Feeding Habits of Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, Linnaeus 1766), in the Ecological Reserve of Taim (ESEC - Taim) - South of Brazil, Lucélia do Valle Borges and Ioni Gonçalves Colares, Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, Vol.50, n. 3 : pp.409-416 May 2007
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.