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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vadodara: Four years ago, the scenic blanket of black covered waters in Wadhwana Lake – a Ramsar site. Thousands of Eurasian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fayetteville Animal Services teamed up with Fayetteville Fire Department to rescue an American Coot Bird that got caught up ...

A bird was thrown an unwanted celebration when 24 party balloons became entangled round its nest. The black-and-white coot was staying out of trouble on its canal-side home when the multicoloured ...