animals.

[ormery]

Comments

[kate_andy]

....oh my gosh. Every year for about 4 years now my friends and I go to this park in the spring, and it is always filled with those black birds with the red eyes/white beaks/crazy feet, and we have never been able to figure out what they are before. You have solved the mystery! :O

[ormery]

Oh, I am pleased to have helped spread the joy of coots!

I like to think they are the unevolved form of loons.

[kate_andy]

Our theory up until now was that they were loons! Ornithology sites were so not helpful in our quest for an answer. :/

[ormery]

Ahahaha, really? That delights me.

.. That you thought they were loons

not

that the ornithology sites did you no good.

[kate_andy]

I also thought that maybe they had like, been in this tiny park ecosystem for so long that they had evolved their own new species of bird hitherto unrecorded by science! And that's why we couldn't find them. :D I've got to remember coots for next spring.