Another major landmark in some stories is a large statue of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot.

Located near Duckburg is a farm owned and run by Grandma Duck, a direct descendant of Cornelius Coot and Donald's paternal grandmother.

Cornelius Coot is the founder of Duckburg, Calisota and Toontown Fair ( according to a statue in the land at the Magic Kingdom ), and Donald Duck's great-great-grandfather.

But he is the first member of the Coot Kin to gain prominence.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree, Clinton is married to Gertrude Gadwall and their two children are Grandma Duck ( Elvira Coot ) and Casey Coot.

Gertrude Gadwall is the wife of Clinton Coot, mother of Elvira Coot ( also known as Grandma Duck ) and Casey Coot, grandmother of Quackmore Duck, Daphne Duck, Eider Duck, Cuthbert Coot and Fanny Coot, great-grandmother of Donald Duck, Della Duck, Gladstone Gander, Abner Duck, Fethry Duck, Gus Goose and possibly Kildare Coot, and finally great-great-grandmother of Huey, Dewey and Louie and possibly Dugan Duck.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree he is featured as a grandson of Cornelius Coot, a son of Clinton Coot and his wife Gertrude Gadwall.

It has been suggested that he is also the grandfather of Kildare Coot although Rosa has not used the latter in his stories or tree.

Gretchen Grebe is the wife of Casey Coot, mother of Cuthbert Coot and Fanny Coot and grandmother of Gus Goose.

It has also been suggested that she is the grandmother of Kildare Coot.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree she is featured as a daughter of Casey Coot and his wife Gretchen Grebe, and so a niece of Elvira Coot, Donald's paternal grandmother.

In Don Rosa's Duck family tree he is included as a member of the Coot Kin and more specifically as son of Casey Coot and his wife Gretchen Grebe, which makes him a nephew of Elvira Coot, a brother of Fanny Coot, a first cousin of Quackmore Duck, a first cousin once removed of Donald Duck and an uncle of Gus Goose.

As a swimming species, the Coot has partial webbing on its long strong toes.

They tend to have short, rounded wings and are weak fliers, though northern species nevertheless can cover long distances — the American Coot has reached Britain and Ireland on rare occasions.

The Red-knobbed Coot is largely black except for the white facial shield.

While Scrooge finds himself surrounded by an extended family ( see The Clan McDuck, Duck family and Coot Kin ) and a large number of allies and rivals ( see Scrooge McDuck Universe ), Flintheart lives a life of solitude and seems to have no family, friends or for that matter rivals except Scrooge himself.

Other animals found in the relatively open habitats of the high Andes include the huemul, cougar, foxes in the genus Pseudalopex, and, for birds, certain species of tinamous ( notably members of the genus Nothoprocta ), Andean Goose, Giant Coot, flamingos ( mainly associated with hypersaline lakes ), Lesser Rhea, Andean Flicker, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.

The surname " Coot " had been used on several ducks by various artists, usually for characters who were relatives of Donald Duck but were not part of the Duck family or The Clan McDuck.

In his book Coot Club ( 1934 ) he describes the busy scene on the river at Wroxham Bridge with numerous boats – a wherry, punts, motor cruisers and sailing yachts – jostling for a mooring.

The nephews stitch the remaining puzzle together: The British didn't find the library when they reoccupied Drakeborough, but Cornelius Coot, the founder of the City of Duckburg, found it during the late 18th century, and left the book to his son Clinton Coot, the founder of the Junior Woodchucks, who in turn used it as a framework for the very first edition of the Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook, the only one book in the world Scrooge can't buy.

As the condensed book passed on by the last survivor of Drakeborough and found by Clinton Coot is the framework for the first edition of the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, in Rosa's later story The Lost Charts of Columbus ( 1995 ), the Junior Woodchucks intend to raise funds for excavations at the site of Cleopatra's hidden library in Egypt before it was brought to Byzantium.

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.

In the mid-1980s, the BBC produced Coot Club and The Big Six for television.

He auditioned to play Coot, another werewolf in the series, but was asked to read for Alcide instead.

** Aerocar Coot, a two-seat amphibious aircraft first flown in 1969, designed for homebuilding by Moulton Taylor

* Hullabaloos, a group of renters in Arthur Ransome's novel for children, Coot Club

The site is of international importance for Shoveler and of national importance for Tufted Duck and Coot. In addition it is frequently used for for water sports and swimming.

Although Taylor continued to push for the viability of the flying car throughout the rest of his life, he also designed a number of only slightly more conventional designs for the homebuilt aircraft market, including the Taylor Coot amphibian and the Aerocar IMP family of sportsplane designs.

It is sometimes seen with the Australian Coot ( Fulica atra ); it is thought that the Scaup takes advantage of the food stirred up by the Coots as they fossick for shrimps.

The most complex frontal shield is found in the Horned Coot.

It differs from the American Coot in that the latter species usually has red knobs at the top of its frontal shield.

In one story where Rockerduck was trying to ruin Scrooge's deal about cleaning the statue of Cornelius Coot, Jeeves sheepishly tells him " You have no conscience, sir ", to which Rockerduck replies " That's not true.

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.

The Eurasian Coot is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

Other birds found here include Lapwing, Coot, Goldeneye, Tufted Duck, Pochard, Teal, Wigeon, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe and, most notably, Osprey, which were re-introduced to the area during 1996.

A good view is necessary to separate this species from the Eurasian Coot, with which its range overlaps.

The Caribbean Coot ( Fulica caribaea ) is a large waterbird of the family Rallidae, which is a resident breeder in the Caribbean and parts of Venezuela.

It was later found by Cornelius Coot who gave the book to his son Clinton Coot who, in turn, was inspired to found The Junior Woodchucks as a continuation of the Guardians of the Library.

However, the Pleistocene coot Fulica shufeldti ( formerly F. minor ), famously known as part of the Fossil Lake fauna, quite possibly was a paleosubspecies of the American Coot ( as Fulica americana shufeldti ) as they only differed marginally in size and proportions from living birds.

The habits of the Red-knobbed Coot are practically identical to those of the Eurasian coot.

Clinton Coot was first mentioned in Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 27 in the story " Guardians of the Lost Library ", first published in July, 1994.

Casey Coot first appeared in " Last Sled to Dawson ", first published in June, 1988.