If you’ve ever been to the pond at the Myriad Botanical Gardens, you might have wondered, “Man, what a weird-looking bird,” upon seeing the white-beaked, green-footed creature among the ducks. The ...

The American Coot walks like a duck and kind of sounds like a duck, but it isn’t even closely related to a duck. The coot is, ...

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 ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs and ...

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, ...

Before you can run, you have to learn to walk. And before you can fly, at least for the coot, you have to run. To get airborne, “think about the amount of strength needed. They’re more like a 747 ...

The American coot is a somewhat drab water bird with gray and black feathers and a white beak, common in wetlands throughout North America. Coot chicks, however, sport outrageously bright orange and ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

A coot is about 36-40cm long with a wingspan of 70-80cm. They are a common breeding species found here all year round — typically on wetlands. Smaller than a mallard, both sexes appear similar. Coots ...