Foulque macroule
The first reference to a coot in the Hawaiian Islands was by Andrew Bloxam, who encountered the Hawaiian coot but failed to collect a specimen as he mistook it for the Eurasian coot, "Fulica atra", while in the islands in 1825 as the naturalist on board . It is now considered either to be a separate species, "Fulica alai", or a subspecies of the American coot, "Fulica americana alai".