American Coot

American Coot

American coot is medium sized birds which look like a chicken, swimming bird with dark grey color all around the body, white bill and under tail coverts. Toes of American coot are lobbed and it is not webbed. The upper part of the frontal shield is red in color but mostly visible at close ranges. During the flight it beats its wing rapidly.

This bird usually spends winter in the north to British Columbia and New York. The habitat of this bird includes marshes and open ponds. Found mostly on the inlets and coastal bays which often seen in large rafts during winter

Interesting facts

Even though this bird don’t have webbed feet it swims like duck with the lobbed feet which is found on each side of the feet.
When coot bird doesn’t feel like hunting for their own food, they’ll steal their meal from other birds nest.