Least ConcernRed-knobbed Coot
Fulica cristata
27 countries9 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of coot, in the family Rallidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 72 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is told from the Eurasian coot by two red knobs on its forehead.
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It is a rallid with an African distribution that reaches southern Iberia: one of the greatest oddities of Spanish birdlife.
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Although it is omnivorous, it feeds above all on aquatic plants such as Potamogeton, but it also takes the eggs and chicks of other waterbirds.
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The chicks hatch in striking red and orange down, which may help the parents tell them apart and favour particular ones.
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