Fulica americana

Coot Explosion

The Coot convention of a week ago snowballed into a Coot mega-flock larger than any I’ve seen them achieve. There

The resident year-round population of four or five American Coots exploded this week as more than two dozen migrants flew

I’ve been searching for Burrowing Owls in their usual haunts almost daily — sometimes twice daily — since the beginning

The Coots that stay here year round — and this year that’s been only three or four, as far as

This pair of American Coots look to be year-round residents of the park. At low tide on this day, they

So many birds go north in the summer that the waters of the North Basin east of the park sometimes

Algae doesn’t have a lot of friends in the world, but Wigeons and Coots at the park consider it a

People all the time call Coots ducks. This American Coot is tired of it and wants to set the record

The water level in the North Basin dropped nine feet (9.08 to be exact) in just over seven hours (7’9″

These American Coots live in the rocks around the Open Circle viewpoint. The two in this video are part of