Sentence examples for coots from inspiring English sources

Her Democratic opponent, a little-known state senator named Kay Hagan, put out an ad that slyly drew attention to her age.Two old coots sit in rocking-chairs.

Coots and gallinules consume much aquatic vegetation.

Exceptional clutches of 15 20, recorded for some coots and gallinules, may be due to more than one female laying in the same nest.

Swimming in birds is usually correlated with webbed feet, but coots and grebes, with only lobes on their toes, also swim and dive, and gallinules, with neither webs nor lobes, commonly swim.

Pond ducks, such as mallards and teals, spring straight up from the water's surface into the air in flight, but many swimming birds for example, coots, grebes, cormorants, and diving ducks take off with a long spattering run along the surface.

Coots have greenish or bluish gray feet, the toes of which are fringed by a lobed membrane that facilitates swimming and walking over plant-choked marshes and ooze.

Now it is a 300-acre resort, with hot tubs, restaurants, and a spa.In this section Red tape blues A year of drama and dissent Believe it or not Neither a state nor independent Freshening New England's armpit Anarchists get organised Nudists on cruises Call him Queen Bee Reprints"We're busier than a coot," says Donna Daniels of Castaways Travel, which arranges nudist cruises and other vacations.

In fact, Mrs Dole is 72, but the coot explains that some watchdog organisation once ranked her the 93rd most effective senator.

The other coot replies that Mrs Dole is 92 as in, she voted with George Bush 92% of the time.

The European coot (F. atra) breeds abundantly in many northern parts of the Old World, in winter resorting to river mouths or shallow bays of the sea.

Birds with white plumage, such as swans, have a white body louse, while the dark-plumaged coot has an almost black body louse.