coot

I stood forninst him, an' 'twas not me oi alone that cud tell Peg was dhrunk as a coot.

Can't you imagine him--bald as a coot, with a pair of sponge-bag trousers, a little spotted tie, and a corporation?"

'Hoold 'em toight,' cried the guard, 'while ar coot treaces.

At Tristan d'Acunha, where, according to Carmichael, there are only two land-birds, there is a coot. From these facts I believe that the waders, after the innumerable web-footed species, are generally the first colonists of small isolated islands.

On the other hand, grebes and coots are eminently aquatic, although their toes are only bordered by membrane.

However, young coot sometimes face a bigger threat from their parents, who usually give up feeding the young after three or four days.

DEBKAfile's military sources add that an Il-20 Coot has been sighted in the last few days at the Iraqi Al Taqaddum Air base near Baghdad.

He laid the coot on the ground and returned to his wife, hugging her shoulders.

But the coot's shindig had simmered down by the time officials arrived yesterday, with the balloons nowhere to be seen.

Black Coot, Fulica atra is one of the migratory birds who come to Pakistan from Siberia in winter from October-March every year.