The American Coot (Fulica americana) is a bird of the family Rallidae, inhabiting wetlands and open water bodies. Groups of coots are called covers or rafts.
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“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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