| Eagles and coots were collected and sent to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin for examination. |
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| There's a bench here and you could spend time looking out for moorhens, coots, wagtails and warblers, and the fish that attract them. |
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| A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds. |
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| Apparently large numbers of ducks, coots and other waterbirds winter at the lake. |
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| Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species. |
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| And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails. |
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| Bald coots enjoyed his potatoes, olive whistlers pulled up sprouting peas, and pipits ate young sprouts. |
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| The water came right up to the walkway, and a few Ring-billed Gulls knifed into the wind, sailing over dozens of ducks and coots. |
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| The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon. |
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| Ducks, coots, teals, terns, gulls, cormorants, waders, egrets, plovers and herons are some of the birds that assemble here. |
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| There were about 50 coots, 25 shovelers, and a handful each of mallards and ferruginous ducks. |
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| We see two American coots, which are black, white-billed rails that behave very similarly to ducks. |
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| Down in the pond there were mallards, northern shovelers, coots and a few gallinules. |
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| Going around the lake I observed crested grebes, coots, moorhens, ducks, swans and herons. |
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| Stevenson describes herons rising from the water's edge and an abundance of moorhens and coots. |
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| On the water ducks and coots patrolled the margins and further out was a dinghy. |
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| American coots also nest at quite high densities so there are more potential host nests available. |
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| Herons and egrets swooped at our bow, and at night we moored alongside sand islands and among reeds and coots. |
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| Even if you're one of the cranky coots who loathe every nanosecond of the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars still qualifies as top-notch. |
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| That's right, it was the CD release party for those lovable coots, The Scurvy Pirates. |
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| They pick food from the surface of shallow wetlands, graze in open fields, and steal food from coots and diving ducks. |
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| Varying water levels are especially important to birds such as grebes, coots, and diving ducks that build floating nests in emergent vegetation. |
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| I also saw a few coots and a purple swamphen near the edge of the reeds. |
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| The ducks are among hundreds of wildfowl, including moorhens, coots and Canada geese based at the university, which is famed for its natural habitat. |
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| Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds. |
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| My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water. |
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| A winter census of a lake in Arizona may include a thousand coots, a thousand gadwalls, a thousand baldpates, and assorted other species in lesser numbers. |
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| Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view. |
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| That's why it's simply not wise for coots like me to look in a mirror. |
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| When we reached this place the smew had joined a covert of coots. |
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| At the laundry pond a marsh harrier was harassing the ducks and coots, flying low over them and flushing them out of the reeds and into open water. |
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| More than 70 varieties of birds breed on and around the lake, including the famous ospreys, tufted ducks, goldeneyes, coots, pochards, mallards and widgeons. |
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| Well, then, what in the name of Abraham Lincoln are you coots waiting for? |
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| I object to all preachy busybodies, including young coots like Roberts. |
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| Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes. |
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| Swans, herons, coots and oystercatchers are just some of the bird species recently observed, and fish have also seen in at least one of the ponds. |
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| Can't those poor coots see that you don't know two cents about phrenology? |
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| With all this talk about young whippersnappers trying to get involved in politics, it has been largely overlooked that old coots aren't exactly in the middle of the action. |
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| During those hunts, youth can harvest ducks, mergansers, coots and moorhens, and both youth and licensed adults can harvest Canada geese. |
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| The Rancho del Oro material is identical to living coots, except that the ulna and tibiotarsus are slightly more slender. |
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| Additionally, loons, grebes, ducks, coots, auks, gulls, geese and even swans have been preyed upon. |
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| Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips. |
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| The lake has mallards, Pochard diving ducks and coots, and toads and lizards were starting to appear. |
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| Rehabilitated common murres, western grebes, and white-winged scoters had even less success than the coots or the pelicans. |
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| During these special two days of hunting, youth can harvest ducks, mergansers, coots and moorhens. |
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| Birds taken by Prut wildcats include warblers, ferruginous ducks, coots, spotted crakes, and gadwalls. |
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| Eco Pond was alive with alligators, soft-shelled turtles, mallards and coots. |
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| Subadult fourth-stage worms were present 20 days after infection in the tibiotarsal joints of the host in an experimental infection of American coots with P fulicaeatrae. |
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| Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots. |
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