Coot Collection

Book of the Dead / 28
The coot, the lotus, and the god who lightens the darkness, illustrating transformations

Fulica americana, American coot
Plate 239 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Red-knobbed coot or crested coot, Fulica cristata. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Gannet, coot, seaweed and wasp
Northern gannet, Morus bassanus 4, red-fronted coot, Fulica rufifrons 5, Flustra foliacea seaweed 1, 2, and Gasteruption wasp 3. Flustre, foene, fou, foulque

Slad, Gloucstershire - pond
A still pond at Slad, Gloucestershire. Sunbeams shine through the early morning mist and coots paddle on the surface Date: 1989

Water rail, Rallus aquaticus, and Eurasian coot, Fulica atra.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France

Red-necked phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine, Harrison, London, 1800

Common coot, Fulica atra.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Fulica atra, common coot
Plate 84 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

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