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Vol. 51 No. 2 (2020)

TWO PHOTOGRAPHED AMERICAN COOT × COMMON GALLINULE HYBRIDS

Submitted
September 14, 2025
Published
April 1, 2020

Abstract

 To the three previous reports of hybrids of the American Coot × Common Gallinule we add two, one from Mountain View, California, in July 1995 and one from Tijuana, Baja California, in December 2019 and January 2020. Th hybrids were similar in their coot-like build and intermediate plumage coloration, but they diffred in size, bill and leg coloration, extent of lobes on the toes, and some plumage details. Th one in Tijuana was larger than either parental species but made vocalizations of both species. Such intergeneric hybrids are rare, but at least 11 examples of  Fulica ×  Gallinula have been reported from the Old World.

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