The unique foot structure also comes into play defensively ... the gallinule has a red bill with a yellow tip. The American coots that are flying through now will overwinter in the United States ...

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 ...

My wife Laurie and I were reminded of this while watching American coots during our winter vacation in Southern California. We didn’t need to travel all that way to see these “old coot ...

"What the heck is a coot?" gasped the girl, slowly edging out into the open now that she had some breathing room. “An American coot is a waterbird, but it isn’t a duck,” I said.

With their bright plumage, North American coot chicks really stick out. A new study by UC Santa Cruz indicates that such coloration not only serves to get more food out of the parents, but also ...

A newly hatched American coot chick shows off its colorful ornamental plumes, beak, and naked head. The bright colors of coot chicks help their parents choose favorites, according to a new study. The ...

Over the past month, golf courses in the Southwest have seen the unwelcome return of American coots. These duck-like migratory birds have black bodies, red eyes, white beaks, and prefer to live and ...

Extreme offspring ornamentation in American coots is favored by selection within families, not benefits to conspecific brood parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2019 ...

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 ...