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Black Coot vs American Coot

By Charlie • February 2, 2008 • 6 comments

There are just two common species of coot in the whole of the northern hemisphere - the Eurasian or Black Coot Fulica atra and the American Coot F. americana (the Red-knobbed Coot F. cristata is found throughout Africa and reaches southern Europe, but nowhere north of the equator is it found in such huge numbers […]