Date: 6/16/25 4:27 pm From: Arthur Macmillan <grrrrrrrrrr8...> Subject: Re: [MBBIRDS] Gallinule or Coot??
Hi Kimberly! I have to say you see a lot of good birds! As to this one I am
going to go with American Coot! Probably lots of people have said so. I
don't think I have ever seen one in the hilarious juvenile phase seen here:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/303193541-1280px.jpg The young bird has a bald red head, red bill, a bit of orange and a lot of
wild yellow streamers. Really ugly but cool at the same time. In your
photo, it seems like the partially bald head still shows traces of a still
pinkish pate.
I've never gotten a photo of the fully absurd younger version looking like
the one in the photo that I liked to. But I would like to!!! The one you
posted is pretty cool. I will see if I can find it!
- Arthur "Mac" Macmillan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM Kimberly Butts <kimberlygrey33...>
wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I was birding with a friend at Corcoran today and saw a couple of adult
> Coots with, what we settled on, was a juvenile Coot. It didn't quite match
> other juveniles of that size we'd seen before, but we thought perhaps it
> was just one stage below in development the other examples we had seen.
>
> She mentioned that the beak looked pink (I am red/green colorblind so it
> was too subtle for me to detect) and I thought it could be a juvenile
> Gallinule. It seemed a stretch so we moved on. But now that I've looked at
> photos of other juvenile Gallinules, it very well could be that?? Did we
> find a Coot couple that adopted an orphaned Gallinule?
>
> Thoughts please! Apologies for the poor quality of the photos, distance
> and heat interference worked against me.
>
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