Fulica americana
American Coots are chunky chicken-like birds with dark to black bodies, red eyes, white bills with a dark ring, and long greenish yellow legs with long toes.
Title: American Coot swimming with head low to the water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017
Title: American Coot exhibiting patrolling behavior
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017
Title: American Coot patrolling a pond
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017
Title: Aggressive American Coot
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017
Title: Forster’s Tern feeding its young who is perched on a dead coot
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/3/2017
Title: American Coot chick
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: American Coot standing on one leg at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: American Coot either nesting or resting
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: American Coot chick at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: Double-crested Cormorant and American Coot in snow
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/23/2017
Title: American Coot shaking its feathers after bathing
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/4/2017
Title: Charging American Coot portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/4/2017
Title: Coot portrait in front of icy blue water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/4/2017
Title: American Coots displaying under tail coverts
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: End of an American Coot chase
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: One American Coot turns during the chase
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coots running on the water
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: The aggressive American Coot on the other coot’s tail
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coot about to overtake the other coot
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: One American Coot chasing another coot
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coot with water droplets flying
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coot being chased past me
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coot being chased at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/1/2017
Title: American Coot being chased by Mallards
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/3/2017
Title: American Coot sliding on ice
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/28/2016
Title: American Coot portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/28/2016
Title: American Coot walking on ice
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/28/2016
Title: American Coot evading another coot
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016