I thought coots were more eloquently and exotically termed "Ivory-Billed Rails?" Brian Monk Bel Air MD arnold stanley wrote: > When Joe Halpin and I did five CBCs in Texas a year ago, we learned about > WATER GRACKLES. These were none other than American Coots. When it came > to noise, color and sheer numbers, the analogy seemed quite > appropriate (the Laguna Atascosa CBC tallied 60,000 that year). > > Stan Arnold > Glen Burnie, MD