A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs and trash. Coots are found throughout Europe, and in major cities, they sometimes make nests out of the only available material—plastic trash.

“The common coot is a wetland bird that in The Netherlands originally built its nests of plant materials which rapidly decay, so coots normally construct a new nest every year.

Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. Contrary to its name, the common coot is no ordinary bird. These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

Hunters shouldn’t overlook including the purchase of a Migratory Game Bird License when buying their general hunting license ...

Birds of Ireland: coot Juvenile coots are paler than adults, especially on the head, neck and breast. Similar to a young moorhen but they lack white on the undertail; downy chicks dark brown with ...

Wildlife police believe that the birds were shot by someone in a boat on the river north of Vantage ... Officers then found 20 dead coots and one wounded coot about four miles to the south near ...

His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...