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| Description | The Australian coot is a smart, dark-grey, duck-like waterbird, instantly recognisable from its bright white bill and frontal shield. Coots are related to gallinules – the branch of the rail family that includes pukeko and takahe. Out of the water, a coot’s stance is more like a small pukeko than a duck. But instead of the pukeko’s long thin toes, coots have broad fleshy lobes on their short toes, used to give propulsion when swimming. The Australian coot is a recent arrival in New Zealand, first recorded breeding here in 1958. Their colonisation partially fills the niche left vacant by the extinction of the New Zealand coot, which was widespread before the arrival of Maori. Coots are the most aquatic members of the rail family, and are less secretive than most other rails. Although they do graze on short grass, they spend most of their time in the water, bobbing their heads as they swim and making short dives after a little forward jump. (<a href="http://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/</a>) |
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| Source | Australian Coot |
| Author | Geoff McKay from Palmerston North, New Zealand |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Geoff J Mckay at https://flickr.com/photos/129472387@N07/51145015872. It was reviewed on 5 December 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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