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Although they often "appear" dumb, I have found coots to be really quick learners. Back when I was much younger, I hunted them some. They were, generally, difficult to get to flush. They would hold in cattails and sedge as tightly as a rooster pheasant
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<span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate">Hal Michael<br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Board of Directors, </span><a style="font-size: 12pt;" href="http://ecowb.org/">Ecologists Without Borders</a></span></span>
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On 12/23/2024 4:13 PM PST Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote:
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</div> Alan, I’m glad to hear that coots actually have a brain in those little heads! I once saw an eagle fly over a big (>100) spread-out flock of coots on Lake Washington and had them all amazingly rapidly assemble into a single long line. Not sure what the strategy was there, but it was obvious and interesting.
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I, too, have seen eagles hunting coots and other diving birds on Lake Washington. A few times, though, I've seen the prey outfox the eagles at Magnuson Park. When an eagle was working a coot flock, the coots would move under the swim/dive dock on short supports off shore, and mill in the middle until the eagle gave up and danger passed.
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