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American Coot

Fulica americana

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5 Comments

Neil Ross
Neil Ross 10 years ago

Great spotting, Matt. We have a Coot species here in Australia, but I've never seen them in a town meeting like this. Awesome!

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

Matt here is a great reference for the American Coot. You can glean the scientific name from the following link and edit this lovely spotting with that information:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/ameri...

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

What a lucky sighting!!! Congrats!

EmilyMarino
EmilyMarino 11 years ago

Wow! Look at all those coots!

Where did you see this birds!!! I lived in California, Newport Beach, Seal Beach and I never saw this kind of birds there much less in Huntington Beach?!

MattMoore
Spotted by
MattMoore

Huntington Beach, California, USA

Spotted on Nov 11, 2012
Submitted on Nov 13, 2012

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