Aquatic Birds

Swimming With the Coots

This little pied-billed grebe was swimming with a big batch of American Coot, happy as a lark. My focus was on the grebe, which normally is a shy bird and stays much further away.
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
American Coot (Fulica Americana)

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