Coot and Moorhen behaviour (1 Viewer)

Eevie

I think most people who follow young birds from the moment they are born till they are old enough to leave their parents become somehow attached to them.

Seagulls, like Herons, are the birds who are responsible for most of the young Coots and Moorhens who disappear.

Last week Tuesday August 8 was the last time I saw my little friend Coot A, it apparently left the little canal. In the couple of weeks before it had often been in the company of female Coot B who often fed the young one, but I also saw it all alone, his Moorhen friends having left the little canal at the end of July. At about 10 to 11 weeks of age it is rather young to leave, but it had always been quite independant. Female Coot B is now all alone in the little canal, her young one that she abandoned is still further up the canal with the Moorhen family that adopted it.

Here a picture of young Coot B with the Moorhen family, it is the one on the right.