With their bright orange and red feathers, North American coot chicks stick out like safety vests. A new study by the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) indicates that such coloration not only ...

While I was strolling around the lake one evening, I observed a young woman being mobbed by a crowd of avian groupies. They were about the size of a chicken with dark gray feathers, bright-white bills ...

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Just a little over a week after a tornado blew through parts of Edisto Beach, one heavily-damaged business is making a quick comeback.Coot's Bar & Grill reopened on Tuesday ...

Remarkable pictures show a coot defending its chicks from a buzzard by drowning the bird just a foot away from its nest. The images show the mother coot, which are known to be aggressively territorial ...

OK. Enough is enough. No more denial. No more looking over my shoulder. Commonly referred to as mud hen or mud duck, the American coot is neither a duck nor a hen but is actually a giant member of the ...

What looks like a duck, floats like a duck and swims like a duck, isn’t always a duck! My wife Laurie and I were reminded of this while watching American coots during our winter vacation in Southern ...

Too many mouths to feed? Just make your babies fight each other to the death! That's a strategy some bird parents have been using since even before TheHunger Games was popular. It means the strongest ...

AllHipHop caught up with Coot Corleon in downtown Los Angeles to discuss his roots in LA, his sound, love for music and dancing, meeting Bino Rideaux, how Nipsey lead to his name, dedicating “Blacc ...