American Coot

Taxonomy

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae

Genus

Fulica

eBird Code

y00475

Subspecies (2)

• Fulica americana americana

  breeds southern Alaska across southern Canada, and southward through western and central USA to northwestern Costa Rica), the Caribbean (Greater and Lesser Antilles), and northern South America (northern Venezuela)

• Fulica americana columbiana

  Andes of Colombia and formerly at least northern Ecuador (where perhaps extirpated)