#1144 · 🐦 birds

Red-knobbed Coot

🇳🇱 Knobbelmeerkoet ·Fulica cristata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © jjulio2000 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Blake Jordan Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © John Gale · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Wolfgang Bettighofer · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © mariarandall · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Matthieu Gauvain · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-knobbed coot or crested coot , ( Fulica cristata ), is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,062iNaturalist observations
weight 41 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
8,062 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 41 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).