Editing Common moorhen (section)

==Behaviour==
===Food and feeding===
This species will consume a wide variety of vegetable material and small aquatic creatures. They forage beside or in the water, sometimes walking on lilypads or upending in the water to feed. They are often secretive, but can become tame in some areas. Despite loss of habitat in parts of its range, the common moorhen remains plentiful and widespread.

===Breeding===
The birds are territorial during breeding season, and will fight with other members of their species, as well as other water birds such as [[duck]]s, to drive them out of their territory. The nest is a basket built on the ground in dense vegetation. Laying starts in spring, between mid-March and mid-May in Northern hemisphere temperate regions. About 8 eggs are usually laid per female early in the season; a brood later in the year usually has only 5–8 or fewer eggs. Nests may be re-used by different females. Incubation lasts about three weeks. Both parents [[incubate (bird)|incubate]] and feed the young. These fledge after 40–50 days, become independent usually a few weeks thereafter, and may raise their first brood the next spring. When threatened, the young may cling to the parents' body, after which the adult birds fly away to safety, carrying their offspring with them.<ref name=Snow/><ref name=Mann/>

=== Nest parasitism ===
Common moorhens are known to partake in both intraspecific and interspecific parasitism, meaning they will lay their eggs in the nests of other moorhens as well as other species. The frequency of the former increases when there are an insufficient number of nesting sites, while the causes for the latter are relatively unknown. There is no one specific species that is the target of their interspecific paratisism, as moorhen eggs have been discovered in the nests of [[Eurasian coot|common coots]], [[Grey partridge|grey partridges]], mallards, and several other species. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haraszthy |first=László |date=2018 |title=Intra- and interspecific nest parasitism of Common Moorhen (review of cases and new data) |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=130958248&site=eds-live |journal=Ornis Hungarica |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=95–101 |doi=10.1515/orhu-2018-0007|doi-access=free }}</ref>