Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
American Coot
Fulica americana
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Not a duck. Lobed toes, white bill, and a willingness to pick fights with anything on the pond.
- Populasi
- ~7.1 million
- Habitat
- Freshwater wetlands — reed-ringed lakes and ponds, open marshes, prairie potholes, swamps, and slow-moving rivers; will use brackish or coastal/saltwater habitats temporarily in winter
- Fakta menarik
- American Coot parents can recognize their own first-hatched chick and use it as a template to identify and aggressively reject brood-parasitic chicks laid by other coots in their nest (conspecific brood parasitism affects roughly 40% of nests) — a rare ability among birds.
- Sebaran
- Breeds from southern Canada (southeastern Alaska and Canada) across most of the United States; year-round resident across the Pacific coast and southwestern U.S./Mexico; winters through the southern U.S., Mexico, Central America (to Costa Rica/Panama), and the Caribbean/West Indies, with occasional records into northern South America
- Makanan
- Omnivorous: mainly algae and aquatic plants (duckweed, eelgrass, wild rice, cattails, waterlilies), supplemented with arthropods, mollusks/snails, small fish and other vertebrates like tadpoles, and aquatic invertebrates (more animal matter taken during breeding season)
- Ukuran
- 0,38 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,65 m
- Masa hidup
- 8 tahun
