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american coot

Fulica americana

Photo by KarenSaxton
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

small black duck like bird

Habitat:

mission trails regional park

Notes:

Unlike Mission bay, an urban location, there was one coot and a couple mallards

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KarenSaxton
Taken at one of my favorite places - basically the park that shaped my love of nature: it is now called Mission Trails Regional Park, but to me it will always be the "old Mission Dam"

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