If you appreciate the movie, please click 'like'. Filmed at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA, and Crown Beach in Alameda, CA.
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@PhyllisChandlerGrey6 жыл бұрын
As usual, Jo Alwood provides an informative and entertaining look into the world of birds. Thanks for the time well-spent viewing your work!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
Hey, Phyllis, hi! And thank you for that fulsome praise. Reading it was a nice way to start my day.
@rosestillwagon5 ай бұрын
This is wonderful information! I saw my first coot today!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME5 ай бұрын
Glad to hear you liked it so much! Thank you. I have to say, though, that a first siding of a coot isn’t that thrilling. I mean, it’s not like seeing your first Baltimore oriole or Osprey or kestrel. But they are all interesting if you learn a little bit about them.
@pamelakern28495 жыл бұрын
I usually watch flocks of coots from a distance. They are very shy and paddle away if I try to get a closer look. This was a very informative enjoyable video. I feel like I learned so much .👍👌🏽
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME5 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean, Pamela, about how shy the Coots are. But I filmed a few of them that were very tame in a public park in downtown Oakland, and I was grateful to be able to get so close and observe how they hunt for food.
@LisaSaffell6 жыл бұрын
I love those coots! The underduck!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
LOL. Love it, Lisa.
@umbrellathorn7 ай бұрын
thank you, I stumbled across this video while looking up the slang term and it really made me smile. I also learned a lot!!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME7 ай бұрын
My pleasure- because I enjoy hearing from someone who got such a kick out of this little video. Thanks for telling me so.
@billsomody692811 ай бұрын
Nice tongue in cheek narrative to make one smile and chuckle! Thank you, Ms Alwood! Very much appreciated!🥰💕
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME11 ай бұрын
You’re welcome, and thanks for the nice compliment. Just call me Ms. Tongue in Cheek.
@jimseifried84166 жыл бұрын
Great video Jo !!! You keep educating all of us. Nice work, ;-)
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the praise, Jim. The way it works is that I educate myself--because I know so little to begin with--and then educate you. I love having a hobby where I learn so much.
@tjdillashaw27032 жыл бұрын
Jo this was fun, informative, and beautiful! Saw my first coot today (the bird) and I'm doing some research on it because I never even knew it existed! I'm very happy to stumble upon this video. Your narration really made my day
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME2 жыл бұрын
It's a treat for me to read your comment, TJ. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie and found it useful. Making these movies is a constant learning experience for me. I knew little about Coots until I researched them as I made this video. Same thing for ... just about every animal I've filmed.
@plzhd24 жыл бұрын
I just saw your add!!!! Watched the whole ten minutes of beautiful hummingbirds and great editing and narrating! Omg! Loved the tuftcoquette! Yeah, he should skip trying to get a visa to come here! Usually, I skip through adds when watching (listening while doing house or yard chores)! I heard your voice and had to go to phone to watch!!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I thought someone was paying you to advertise hummy feeders!!! Not sure, if you know where the add was placed, but it was before Bill Whittle! Yeah, love that man!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
Thx for letting me know!
@RickyLJones6 жыл бұрын
Got to love us old Coots! Wonderful job Jo, Happy New Year!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
I do love old coots--I'm married to one. Thanks for the comment and Happy New Year to you too!
@andreabank87863 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your videos! They explain so much!
@leannezezeski-sass27732 жыл бұрын
My favorite animal based phrase is silly goose, geese are in fact very silly
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME2 жыл бұрын
Could you give me an example? Apparently I haven't watched geese enough.
@TimberFlip3 жыл бұрын
coots are beautiful too
@c.h99766 күн бұрын
I only just discovered these birds exist, they've got such cool feet.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 күн бұрын
Yeah, the only time I ever saw those feet close up was the day I had a chance to film when I was visiting Oakland. I hadn't known about their feet, but I was intrigued by them.
@MUNDOM3162 жыл бұрын
I love how these birds run on water
@spitfirebird Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: coots have lobes on their feet, similar to that of Hesperornis ( “Western Bird” in latin), a type of extinct bird that hails from the Mesozoic epoch. They were around the size of an emporor penguin, with cormorant-like proportions. Their wings were vestigial, meaning they became virtually non-existant due to being no longer needed. They would also scoot around with their feet pushing them around on land, so they weren’t the fastest runners. Their lobed feet worked like the webbing on waterfowl feet, and again, like the lobed feet of coots, and they could gain some serious traction underwater, rivaling the speed and maneuverability of cormorants! Weirdly enough, they had teeth, with the upper bill only having teeth at the front but the lower bill having teeth throughout. It is thought to be an intermediate between a mouth with teeth and a toothless beak. The even weirder part is that most mesozoic birds had teeth, like longipteryx, a kingfisher-like bird that fed on fish and insects. Or icthyornis, a distantly related species to seagulls, and they also had teeth similar to hesperornis.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Жыл бұрын
I wonder why the birds that had teeth didn't survive the challenge of time. I'd have thought it would be an advantage. I understand about the lobed feet, even did a movie describing the lobed feet of Pied-billed Grebes.
@spitfirebird Жыл бұрын
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME the reason the toothless birds survived is because the mass extinction of the Cretaceous hit forest-dwelling species especially hard, so most birds that survived were aquatic or ground dwelling. Seeds also would have been easy to find. Being small also would have helped you survive the aftermath. Most toothed birds didn’t have the survivor’s combination of being small, ground-dwelling/aquatic, and seed-eating, and even if some toothed birds survived, they would most-likely become toothless overtime.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Жыл бұрын
@@spitfirebird I appreciate the explanation. As a matter of fact, we were talking about the Permian Extinction at the dinner table last night, because I mentioned that dragonflies have been around for 320 million years, and my brother-in-law was marveling at their survival of the Permian.
@spitfirebird Жыл бұрын
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME also I would like to point out that ichthyornis actually isn’t related to gulls our any bird in the family Laridae. In fact, it isn’t even the closest relative to modern birds, that honor goes to coelosaurian dinosaurs. Oh and now that I think about it, I was also quite surprised that dragonflies and other arthropods survived, but knowing how adaptable and hardy Arthropods are now, I’m not surprised, as arthropods are able to survive in many environments, so they were probably some of the first creatures to bounce back.
@paytonrenner3 жыл бұрын
I’m studying for my environmental science class about bird identification and your channel has been so helpful!!! I’ve learned so much from your videos. I love your narrations too :) learning about birds is so much fun, thank you for your videos!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME3 жыл бұрын
I'm pleased and flattered to hear that my movies are helping you navigate the bird section of your environmental science class, Payton. And when you get to the insects, may I suggest my two movies about the importance of putting in native plants: bugs can't eat most cultivars, and without bugs you pretty much don't have an ecosystem. Study on! (And keep watching my channel. 😉)
@paytonrenner3 жыл бұрын
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Will do! 😄
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME3 жыл бұрын
@@paytonrenner I'm glad to hear it. Of the 300 movies I've done, those two are the most worth watching because the concept they explain is so important. (Plus, watching all those bizarre little bugs is fun.)
@jdoutdoorsnature64604 жыл бұрын
Coots are beautiful.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
Yes. The "underduck" as one of my other viewers put it.
@mdnght00953 жыл бұрын
Great video Jo. You have a very soothing voice.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME3 жыл бұрын
Until I started narrating these movies, I never thought about whether my voice was soothing. But you're the latest of many commenters to tell me so. Thank you.
@debrak.64304 ай бұрын
Ha!!!!! Great narration!!!😂
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 ай бұрын
Love to hear it, Debra. Thanks.
@Fronzel41 Жыл бұрын
The body is round.
@AvoozlPlays6 жыл бұрын
There's Coot's in Australia too.
@TheLIRRFrenchie...5 жыл бұрын
They must migrate somewere for awhile because i haven't seen them since this summer. At lake merritt or golden gate park.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME5 жыл бұрын
They must just move to different spots for awhile, because they're permanent residents in the Oakland area. At least, that's what the range maps tell me, and I filmed them there early last December.
@tornadoandfiresirensofohio84796 жыл бұрын
I like I like your you video I'm surprised or actually a species of rails so that means rails or actually a species of waterfowl
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
My husband--who knows volumes more about birds than I do--tells me that "waterfowl" refers only to ducks, geese and swans. The rails and coots are marsh birds or--as I called them in this movie "water birds". When I had a chance to film the Coots close up, I was surprised to find out how interesting they were. I've always thought of them as dull black birds.So I'm glad you liked the video, because I wanted to show viewers that these dull birds weren't so dull after all.
@idollove344 жыл бұрын
good info
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't think there'd be that much to learn about this plain looking bird, would you?
@blue17713 жыл бұрын
the last part i disagree i LOVE their pretty green, yellow, and blue feet and their stunning pearl-whit bill
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME3 жыл бұрын
Spoken like a true bird lover--and I appreciate you being specific about what you love in the Coots.
@discosecret63633 жыл бұрын
I think Coots are pretty great.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate them more since I filmed them and made this movie.
@davidazinger56396 жыл бұрын
lol. that's great !
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it, David? Would that be, perhaps, because you're an old coot yourself? ;-)
@davidazinger56396 жыл бұрын
There have been rumors, Jo, there have been rumors ! Now, if an old coot calls me an old coot, then you know I'm in trouble because birds of a feather flock together !!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
Funny, David. Wanna be my script writer?
@davidazinger56396 жыл бұрын
your scripts are good; they're real good. Like the recipe for coot by field and stream; that was great. Never heard that one before.
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME6 жыл бұрын
Neither had I. My husband told me about it, and as soon as I heard it, I knew I'd use it.
@wokeeye64414 жыл бұрын
"Glut on the waterbird market" nice finance talk there!!!
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
I can't do much more than add and subtract two-digit numbers, but I do understand the concept of a glut. 😏
@wokeeye64414 жыл бұрын
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME there is a glut in the coot market, invest in mallard stocks in the following quarter
@kathleendesormeau98612 жыл бұрын
What states are they located in
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME2 жыл бұрын
As far as I can tell from the range map, they’re in every state at some time of the year or other. You’d have to check the range map to know whether they are in your state all the time or just some of it.
4 жыл бұрын
Hello . I'm from Vietnam . Can you please apply for American coot, please? male sounds. children . The sound of the whole guitar is fine. No noise as possible. Thank you so much
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
I don't understand your question.
4 жыл бұрын
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME I want to ask his cry
@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME4 жыл бұрын
You can hear his cry at the beginning and at the end of the movie.