Swimming Black-Crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) Kleptoparasitize American Coots (Fulica americana)

Gary R. Graves

doi:10.1894/MCG-11.1

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Gary R. Graves¹

¹Department of Vertebrate Zoology, MRC-116, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Instituti

Abstract

I observed black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) swimming and kleptoparasitizing American coots (Fulica americana) at an artificial lake in Pinal County, Arizona. This appears to be the first record of interspecific kleptoparasitism by a swimming ardeid.

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Gary R. Graves "Swimming Black-Crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) Kleptoparasitize American Coots (Fulica americana)," The Southwestern Naturalist 60(1), 130-131, (1 March 2015). https://doi.org/10.1894/MCG-11.1

Received: 8 February 2014; Published: 1 March 2015

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