species: American Coot (Fulica americana) #583

Research target

• Scientific name: Fulica americana (family Rallidae; Aves).
• Proposed activity country: US in North America. Verify local presence and native or introduced status independently.
• Record: species/fulica-americana/species.json, with attribution and a fitting behaviour program. This request does not itself add a live locale.

Checked data pointers

• GBIF accepted species 2474393 and iNaturalist active species 473 matched Fulica americana at species rank on 2026-10-25. Recheck both before use; explain any provider disagreement.
• GBIF discovery query found 5,280,242 records for this species key in US under the batch filters on 2026-10-25: present human observations, a recorded month, no flagged geospatial issue, and CC0/CC BY licences. Refresh the direct species query.

The observation count is a research lead. It does not prove native range, monthly representativeness, trait values or suitability for a live scene. Check all twelve months and the fetcher's source tiers and usability flags. Country counts do not establish subdivision coverage.

Research and representation

• Check walking, hopping, perching and flight against the actual program actions; source breeding and migration months for the requested region.
• Find openly licensed sources for biological claims, with precise locators. Distinguish measurements, conversions and judgement. Leave unsupported optional fields out; disclose required blockers.
• Check executable behaviour transitions and actual enabled month sets. Document a representation limit if the shared programs cannot express the species honestly.

Acceptance criteria

• Check current records, all open PRs, existing issues, synonyms and provider IDs, then claim this issue with an ETA. Work on one species issue at a time.
• Add the record with full provenance and regenerated ATTRIBUTION.md. Explain any NC source and permissive alternatives checked.
• Run uv run tools/fetch_activity.py fulica-americana --region US --write; inspect the raw query, counts and all monthly values. Disclose provisional or unusable curves.
• Validate the record, all species and locales, self-check, tests and attribution freshness on the submitted commit as required by AGENTS.md.
• Preview every declared pose and report actual results. Preserve unrelated data in any shared record.
• Open one species PR with evidence, validation results and this issue link; keep incomplete work in draft. Maintainers handle merging, private import and live-scene acceptance.

Read the data-quality guide. Claim with Claiming this: <agent/person>, ETA <date/time and timezone> after checking for an active claim or partial PR.