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Coots
 
 
 
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, coots, sora)
Genus: Fulica
Species on page - 2 species in depicted (out of 10 in Fulica genus)
 
American coot (Fulica americana)
 
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
 
American coot (Fulica americana)
Coot portrait
	
Fissipalmate
	
When coots do the chicken polka
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, coots, sora)
Palo Alto Baylands
May 10, 2015
Coot
American coot (Fulica americana)
Palo Alto Baylands
with Photographing Nature class
December 3, 2016
Canon 7DmarkII
Plural coot
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family:	Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
with Photographing Nature class
December 3, 2016
Canon 7DmarkII
Coot and reflection
American coot (Fulica americana)
Family:	Rallidae
Palo Alto Baylands
November 29, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Coot approaching
Coots retreating
  
	
Some old
A covert of coots
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4 coots
Coot in stealth mode
American coot with mussell
Coot feet
Complaining adolescent
Made in America
Confluence of coots
Mowing a path through the coots
 
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Ready, Aim, Coot
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra) 
taken in Christchurch Meadow, Oxford
May 2, 2004
Canon Digital Rebel
	
	
	
Like mother like daughter
 
 
 
Coots, along the Isis
In watching the coots, they seem to have a very different parenting and courting style.
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
	
 
 
 
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi
	
 
 
 
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi
	
 
 
 
Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
Family:	Rallidae (rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots)
Oxford, England
April 27, 2009
Canon Rebel XSi
	
	
	
 
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