Fulica atra
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Sooty black body with a white bill and a white shield running up the forehead, the blaze that gives it its Turkish name
Dives right under and surfaces elsewhere seconds later, while the moorhen never dives and feeds at the surface
Toes are not webbed like a duck's but edged with leaf-shaped lobes, visible when it walks ashore
Takes off by pattering a long way across the water surface with splashing feet
Gathers in winter into dense rafts of thousands on lakes
Short explosive metallic kt and pix notes, also heard at night
