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Coots

Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Genus: Fulica

Species on page - 2 species in depicted (out of 10 in Fulica genus)

+ American coot (Fulica americana)
+ Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)

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American coot (Fulica americana)

Coot portrait

coot
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
2012

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Fissipalmate

coot feet
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
2012

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When coots do the chicken polka

coot

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
May 10, 2015

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Hellyer 2020
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Hellyer Park
July 31, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Coot

baylands

American coot (Fulica americana)
Palo Alto Baylands
with Photographing Nature class
December 3, 2016
Canon 7DmarkII

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Plural coot

baylands

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
with Photographing Nature class
December 3, 2016
Canon 7DmarkII

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Coot and reflection

baylands

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
November 29, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2

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Coot approaching

Hellyer 2020
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Hellyer Park Winter 2020 Bioblitz
February 8, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Coots retreating

jasper ridge

American coot (Fulica americana)
Jasper Ridge
February 3, 2018
Canon 7Dmark2

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Some old

baylands

American coot (Fulica americana)
Palo Alto Baylands
February 11, 2018
Canon 7DmarkII

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A covert of coots

baylands

American coot (Fulica americana)
Palo Alto Baylands
February 24, 2018
Canon 7DmarkII

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4 coots

palo alto baylands 2019

American Coot (Fulica americana )
Palo Alto Baylands
With Photographing Nature class
March 9, 2019
Canon 7D markII

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palo alto baylands 2019

American Coot (Fulica americana )
Palo Alto Baylands
With Photographing Nature class
March 11, 2019
Canon 7D markII

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palo alto baylands 2019

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
With Photographing Nature class
March 11, 2019
Canon 7D markII

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Hellyer 2020
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Hellyer Park
July 31, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Complaining adolescent

Hellyer 2020
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Hellyer Park
July 31, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Made in America

Hellyer 2020
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Hellyer Park
July 31, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Confluence of coots

shoreline park

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae (ralls, coots, gallinules)
Shoreline Park
February 22, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Mowing a path through the coots

shoreline park

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae (ralls, coots, gallinules)
Shoreline Park
February 22, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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shoreline park

American coot (Fulica americana)
Family: Rallidae
Shoreline Park
March 31, 2021
Canon 7Dmark2

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Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)

Ready, Aim, Coot

Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
taken in Christchurch Meadow, Oxford
May 2, 2004
Canon Digital Rebel
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Like mother like daughter

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Coots, along the Isis
In watching the coots, they seem to have a very different parenting and courting style.

Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family: Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England

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coot
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family: Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi

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coot
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)

Family: Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi

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coot
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family: Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi

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