American Coot kills Yellow-headed Blackbird nestlings

Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) Science Article 2

abstract

I know of only one witnessed predation event by an American Coot (Fulica americana) on a vertebrate-a nestling Redwinged Blackbirds.

PETER L. HURD, Wilson Bull., 104(3), 1992, pp. 552-553

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