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Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923
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Species List: American Coot ( Fulica americana )

Common name: American Coot

Family: Rallidae

Scientific name: Fulica americana

Alternate names: mud hen, poule d'eau


Related articles:

  • The Sportsmen's Hunt. The Result of a Day's Sport - Count of the Game.
  • Spring Birds of Nebraska.
  • A Nebraska Collecting Trip.
  • Notes on Nebraska Birds.
  • One Day's Tramp.
  • In the Lugenbeel Marshes. Sunrise and Sunset on the Lovely Waters of the Raccoon. An October Goose and Duck Shoot. Camped in a Pocket of the Hills - Our Blind in the Rushes - A Battle With the Birds - The Day's Work and Repose.
  • [Rail Hunting Along the Missouri River in Eastern Omaha].
  • Among the Sandhills of N.W. Nebraska.
  • [Sunset in the Sandhills and Hunting on Lake Creek].
  • The Birds of Omaha. A List of the Species Observed In and About the City of Omaha.
  • The Bird Fauna of the Salt Basin, near Lincoln.
  • [Outdoor Sport at Cutoff Lake - Gunners and Fishing Parties].
  • Composite List of the Species of Birds Observed by Members of the Nebraska's Ornithologists' Union at the Salt Basin near Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. Sunday, May 22, 1904.



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