| Common Name: | Coot, American | | Scientific Name: | Fulica americana | | Family: | Rallidae | | Area: | Buckskin Mountain State Park, Arizona | | Date: | December 9, 2012 | 
Perhaps the most frequent bird to be seen on the ponds and backwaters in the Northwest, it has commonly been called a 'mud hen'.
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Kern National Wildlife Refuge, California - - - March 17, 2005 | | Reference: | Western Birds by Peterson / Familiar Birds of the Northwest by Nehls / The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds |
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