Slate-colored Coot
Fulica ardesiaca
Widespread, rather large but “average” coot of lakes, marshes, and river mouths; mainly in Andes and adjacent Pacific coastal lowlands. Despite the name, its plumage is no more slate-colored than other coots. Adult comes in three types: most Andean birds have a dark red forehead shield and yellowish bill; elsewhere, rounded forehead shield can be white or pale yellow with a whitish bill. Legs greenish, appreciably shorter than legs of Giant Coot, which occurs alongside Slate-colored at some lakes. Juvenile has a variably grizzled whitish face and throat.
识别特征
The Andean coot is 40 to 43 cm (16 to 17 in) long. It has two color morphs that are present in both subspecies. Both morphs are mostly slaty gray that is blacker on the head and neck. Their secondaries usually have white tips. One morph has a chrome yellow bill that is paler yellow and sometimes green on the tip, a deep chesnut frontal shield, and green legs and feet. The other has a white bill, a white to orange-yellow frontal shield, and slaty legs and feet. Independent of the color morphs, the subspecies differ only in the color of their undertail coverts: The nominate's are white and those of F. a. atrura are almost black.
分类信息
The Andean coot has two subspecies, the nominate F. a. ardesiaca and F. a. atrura. They have a somewhat tortuous taxonomic history. The nominate was at one time treated as a subspecies of the American coot (F. americana) and the other as a separate species. Later they were both included as subspecies of the American coot. The current treatment has been widely accepted since the 1980s, but there is some speculation that the subspecies might be full species.
- 学名
- Fulica ardesiaca
- 命名信息
- Tschudi, 1843
- 目
- Gruiformes
- 科
- Rallidae
- 属
- Fulica
分布与栖息地
The nominate subspecies of Andean coot is found in the Andes from northern Peru south through western Bolivia into northern Chile as far as the Antofagasta Region and into northwestern Argentina as far as Catamarca Province. F. a. atrura is found from the Andes of southern Colombia through Ecuador into far northern Peru and also in coastal Peru. Fossils tentatively assigned to this species are known from the Laguna de Tagua Tagua formation of Chile.<p>The Andean coot mostly inhabits large lakes with heavily vegetated shallows, though it also is found in sparsely vegetated lakes and in ponds, marshes, and rivers. Red-fronted birds tend to dominate in vegetated lakes and white-fronted ones in the less vegetated higher elevation ones. The nominate subspecies is found at elevations between 2,100 and 4,700 m (6,900 and 15,400 ft). F. a. atrura is found between 2,200 and 3,600 m (7,200 and 11,800 ft) in Colombia and at lower elevations in Ecuador and Peru.
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
行为
Andean coots make some seasonal movements but they have not been defined.<p>The Andean coot's diet is mostly aquatic vegetation. Chara is a main component, especially in higher elevation lakes, but others include Myriophyllum and Elodea. It feeds by diving as deep as 5 m (20 ft) and also by walking on floating vegetation. It is gregarious when not breeding and often feeds with other species of coots.<p>The Andean coot's breeding season varies geographically. It may breed at any time of year but most egg laying is in the July–August dry season. It is monogamous and when breeding it is aggressive and territorial. Mixed pairs of the two color morphs often occur. Nests are constructed among reeds or on floating vegetation. Most clutches are of four or five eggs.<p>The Andean coot's usual call is "a low 'churr' or harder 'hrrp'" that is often repeated. Females make a "low chitter".
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- unknown
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