Such a comparison would have been an insult to the moorhen.

If the moorhen is the culprit, there is not much I can do.

In moorhen culture, males do most of the work of sitting on eggs.

A woodpecker cackles, a moorhen parps, and a profound peace settles upon us.

If it is the moorhen, why do it at all?

From the sedges came the curious cry of the moorhen; a bright kingfisher went by.

A moorhen joins in with a sudden screechy warning.

There are two possible culprits: rabbits or moorhen.

A moorhen vanishes into iris lining the stream.

And I saw the moorhen sitting yester eve!

The chain-trail of the moorhen reduplicated itself.

My name's Jerome, and I'm a moorhen.

Carefully looking over that side again, the moorhen who had been out rushed back; the water-rat was gone.

The nightingales sang, the thrushes flew out before them, the wild duck and moorhen glanced on the pools.

With the ducks come teal and widgeon and moorhen, till the swampy meadow resounds with their strange cries.

The "Buzzard lope" and the crane's stately stride are imitable by man, but not the moorhen's gait.