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On the Louisiana coast, the Cajun word for coot is pouldeau, from French for "coot", poule d'eau – literally "water hen". Coot can be used for cooking; it is somewhat popular in Cajun cuisine, for instance as an ingredient for gumbos cooked at home by duck hunters. [40] The bird is the mascot of the Toledo Mud Hens Minor League Baseball team ...
The Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai), also known as the ʻalae keʻokeʻo in Hawaiian, is a bird in the rail family, Rallidae, that is endemic to Hawaiʻi. [2] In Hawaiian, ʻalae is a noun and means mud hen. [3] Kea or its synonym keo is an adjective for white. [4]
Showing plumage details Gallinula crowns and bills showing larger frontal shield on the Hawaiian gallinule (centre) compared with the nominate G. g. galeata (left) and a Common Moorhen from Guam (right) Chicks on the leaf of a giant water lily View of the Hanalei Valley in Kaua’i, a stronghold of the Hawaiian gallinule; Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge in the background, taro fields in the ...
The common moorhen is one of the birds (the other is the Eurasian coot, Fulica atra) from which the cyclocoelid flatworm parasite Cyclocoelum mutabile was first described. [21] The bird is also parasitised by the moorhen flea Dasypsyllus gallinulae. [22]
Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus Gallinula, Latin for "little hen." [1] They are close relatives of coots. They are often referred to as (black) gallinules.
Mud Hen, the U.S. Air Force nickname for the F-15E Strike Eagle; Mud Hen 17, a sailboat named after the American coot; Mudhen, a nickname for the D&RGW K-27 locomotive; Project Mudhen, a Central Intelligence Agency project focused on columnist Jack Anderson; Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league baseball team named for the bird
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Porphyrio is the swamphen or swamp hen bird genus in the rail family. It includes some smaller species of gallinules which are sometimes separated as genus Porphyrula or united with the gallinules proper (or "moorhens") in Gallinula. The Porphyrio gallinules are distributed in the warmer regions of the world. The group probably originated in ...