
The red-knobbed coot or crested coot (Fulica cristata) is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.
It is a resident breeder across much of Africa and in southernmost Spain on freshwater lakes and ponds. It builds a nest of dead reeds near the water's edge or more commonly afloat, laying about 7 eggs (or more in good conditions).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).