{"id":77302,"date":"2014-07-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=06a3fb188eca7f32d5ce3050a44cb413"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:48","slug":"two-kinds-of-coots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/two-kinds-of-coots\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kinds of Coots"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in London last week for a conference. My hotel was near Kensington Gardens, one of London’s Royal Parks. I walked all over the gardens, saw the famous statue of Peter Pan, and sat by a pond watching the royal waterfowl. There were mute swans, tufted ducks, Egyptian geese, moorhens, great crested grebes, great blue herons, and abundant Eurasian coots.<\/p>\n

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Eurasian coot adult, Fulica atra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Eurasian coot chick strikes the same pose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is our local version — the American coot, Fulica americana. Note the different features on the face. Ours has marks at the tip of the beak and on the forehead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And here is Peter Pan…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in London last week for a conference. My hotel was near Kensington Gardens, one of London’s Royal Parks. I walked all over the gardens, saw the famous statue of Peter Pan, and sat by a pond watching the royal waterfowl. There were mute swans, tufted ducks, Egyptian geese, moorhens, great crested grebes, great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2195713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GapDsyB1jpo\/U8MLhd4yWPI\/AAAAAAAABvs\/4ihbDW7OFgE\/s1600\/coot+copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Two Kinds of Coots","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3221,1649,1321,1650,992,1077,2450,2624,1112,1411],"class_list":["post-77302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-egyptian-geese","tag-eurasian-coot","tag-fulica-americana","tag-fulica-atra","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-moorhen","tag-mute-swan","tag-tufted-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}