You can find american coots by scanning lakes and ponds for a small, all-black bird with a bright white bill . They may be at the edges, among vegetation, or out in open water ; you may even see them walking around (not waddling) on land on their fairly long, yellow-green legs. What is a … Read more
Why is a coot not a duck? Although it swims like a duck, the American Coot does not have webbed feet like a duck Instead, each one of the coot’s long toes has broad lobes of skin that help it kick through the water. What other bird looks like a coot? Chunky and almost all … Read more
Chunky and almost all black with a contrasting white bill and red eyes and forehead patch , the coot is hard to mistake for anything else. The common gallinule ( common moorhen ) and purple gallinule are similar in shape, but both are more colorful (the purple gallinule much more so) and less common than … Read more
Common Gallinule What is this? The mostly dark gray body of the common gallinule (formerly called the common moorhen) only makes its bright red forehead and beak stand out even more. What is a black bird with a red beak called? Indeed they are corvids though they’re not in the Corvus genus. Red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax … Read more