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 ...

That's what I think of whenever I see a funny-looking bird called an American coot. This water bird, with a charcoal-colored body and a white beak, is about the same size as a chicken. When on land, ...

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 ...

Movement caught my eye while I sat quietly at the edge of a Palomar Mountain pond. Shifting my gaze, I watched as a tiny black object covered in what looked like scraggly orange fur emerged from 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, ...

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, ...

The American coot is the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. It gets no respect. A look at North Carolina’s daily bag limits for hunting ducks and coots gives you an indication of that lack of regard. The ...

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 ...

The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence. According to biologists, coots have evolved ...

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 ...

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 ...