Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Coots&Moorhens
I havent been lucky enough to have any close shots but here is a distant commotion of American coots.
#AmericanCoots #Coots #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #waterfowl #🪶
A large group of gray American Coots with black heads and white beaks swimming together in the greenish water of a pond at Shollenberger Park in Petaluma, California.
For today's #BOTD I only have #OldCoots 😉👨🦳 so here's a group of #AmericanCoots swimming together at Shollenberger Park in Petaluma, California (2021) 🖤
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #Coots&Moorhens #EastCoastKin #photography #Olympus #California #NorCal @robcrank68.bsky.social
A breeding plumage male #RuddyDuck (blue bill) among another RUDU and a few #AmericanCoots
Mar 2025 in Illinois #birds #birdnerd #birdphotography
A baby duck with base black feathers is cover with fuzzy yellow fuzz. Its head is red with a reddish orange beak. Its black eyes look a little protruded with black lines going from the corner of the eyes to the top of the head.
If #DarthMaul was a #Bird and had a baby.
#AmericanCoots
#birds #birdwatching #CaliforniaBirding #StarWars
#wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #wildlife #nature #photography
#AnimalsDoingHumanThings
Babies of #AmericanCoots have got to be some of the cutest babies on earth!
#birds #birding #birdwatching #CaliforniaBirding
#wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #wildlife #nature #bluesky #photography
Happy #FeatheredFriday! Splish-splashing & Cootin' scootin' into the weekend!
#AmericanCoot #AmericanCoots #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #wetbirds #waterfowl #photography #🪶 #birdphotography #shotoncanon #birdscrolling #photographersofbluesky #BlueskyPhotography #naturelovers #TGIF #featherfriday
At Hassayampa River Preserve in Arizona
#americancoots
#babies
Happy Coot. 🥰
#AmericanCoot #AmericanCoots #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #wetbirds #waterfowl #photography #🪶 #PhotographersUnited #shotoncanon #birdscrolling #photographersofbluesky #BlueskyPhotography #naturelovers
#AmericanCoot
#bird #birds #americancoots
#birdwatching #birding
#photography #birdinginutah #waterfowl #wetbirds
#photographersofbluesky #BlueskyPhotography
#shotoncanon #sigma150600 #daybreakutah #utahwildlife #utahwildlifephotographer
#canon5dmarkiv #🪶 #coot #naturelovers
#AmericanCoot at #goldenhour. 💛
#bird #birds #americancoots
#birdwatching #birding
#photography #birdinginutah #waterfowl #wetbirds
#photographersofbluesky #BlueskyPhotography
#shotoncanon #sigma150600 #daybreakutah #utahwildlife #utahwildlifephotographer
#canon5dmarkiv #🪶 #coot #naturelovers
“He will regret eating that when he goes to the bathroom tonight.”
#birds #birding
#wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #wildlife #nature #bluesky #photography
#AmericanCoots
#animalsdoinghumanthings
A black bird with yellow legs standing in a marsh and peering down at his own reflection
“What the Coot?? Who is that fine-lookin’ birb?”
#bird #birding #birds #birdphotography #photography #PNW #Oregon #Portland #beach #ocean #waterfowl #ducks #AmericanCoots #Coots
Mallard behind an american coot
Feels like a destroyer before a frigate. An American Coots and A Mallard drabling for snacks at early Autumn morning at a Toronto natural reserve.
#birdphotography #torontobirders #americancoots #waterhen #mallard #ducks #birdinf
Ring necked ducks
American coot
Ruddy duck
American coot
It’s weird duck season in Boston! The #ringneckedducks #ruddyducks and #americancoots are back in Chestnut Hill Reservoir! Along with two #piedbilledgrebes, a #yellowbelliedsapsucker, and a few #goldencrownedkinets
A group of American coots swimming
A song sparrow hidden in the reeds
A pied-billed grebe swimming
A mute swan swimming past foliage
#IDBF #birding #birdsofbluesky #birdersofbluesky #Indiana #birds #birdsSeenIn2024 #Americancoots #songsparrow #piedbilledgrebe #muteswan
The first evidence for #parentalselection of exaggerated, #ornamentaltraits in offspring was found in #Americancoots. Studies have found that mothers will preferentially feed offspring with the brightest plume feathers, a characteristic known as #chickornaments.
