Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Red-knobbed Coot*
Id (Atlas):
Fulica cristata
Description (10 )
Red-knobbed Coot
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Other Names (World)
Red-knobbed Coot, Crested Coot
Family
Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)
Size
41 cm
First Described (Guide )
Gmelin, 1789
Algeria (E), Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco (B), Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain (B) (NB), Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Tunisia (E) (B), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Burundi, France, Italy, Malta, Oman, Portugal, Somalia, United Arab Emirates.
Southern Spain and northern Morocco; Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda southern through Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Zaire and Tanzania, west to Angola and south to South Africa; also Madagascar.
 
Population
Estimated population is 110,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)... )
Listen to XC839604
Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata ) [XC839604 ]
by Stein \u00d8. Nilsen from Parc Natural El Fondo d'Elx-Crevillent, Spain (begging call)
Listen to XC512721
Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata ) [XC512721 ]
by Hans Matheve from West Coast National Park, Western Cape, South Africa (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Hawaiian Coot (Fulica alai ), Caribbean Coot (Fulica caribaea ), Andean Coot (Fulica ardesiaca ), American Coot (Fulica americana ), Common Coot (Fulica atra ) and White-winged Coot (Fulica leucoptera ).
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Red-knobbed Coot see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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