Common coot, Fulica atra, Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the black coot, Eurasian coot or European coot, or simply as the coot, photographed in Ribera de Arriba, a municipality in the Autonomous ...

A coot may tally the eggs in her nest, a rare example of an animal counting in the wild, suggests a new study. American coots (Fulica americana) wage covert egg wars among themselves, sneaking into a ...

The brainy horses that counted with their feet in the circuses of yesteryear were merely well-trained frauds, but now a UC Santa Cruz scientist has discovered the real thing: an animal that can count.

Coots, the Rodney Dangerfields of the bird world, just might start to get some respect as a result of a new study showing that these common marsh birds are able to recognize and count their own eggs, ...

A northern saw-whet owl was heard in Nashua on June 16.This the smallest of the owls in the region. It was among a report for birders in New Hampshire last week as part of the NH Audubon Rare Bird ...

While I was strolling around the lake one evening, I observed a young woman being mobbed by a crowd of avian groupies. They were about the size of a chicken with dark gray feathers, bright-white bills ...

PUNE: An albino coot fulica (aquatic bird) has been spotted at Bhigwan by bird watcher Satish Nagare for the first time in the region. The sighting has been recorded in the Ela Journal of Forestry and ...

I’ve often wondered how the name of a waterbird — the American coot — became the pejorative “old coot” for a crotchety old man. But while watching rafts of coots recently at the Anahuac National ...

The red-knobbed coot is a very common resident water bird seen across South Africa. They can be seen in large water bodies that have reed beds. As the only fully black water bird in South Africa, the ...

American coots hang out with ducks, and so it is tempting to describe the coot as an odd duck. But the coot is not a duck at all but a member of the rail family. It's more closely related to moorhens, ...

What looks like a duck, floats like a duck and swims like a duck, isn’t always a duck! My wife Laurie and I were reminded of this while watching American coots during our winter vacation in Southern ...