Foulque macroule
The Eurasian coot was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae" under its current binomial name "Fulica atra". Linnaeus specified the locality as Europe but this is now restricted to Sweden. The binomial name is from Latin: "Fulica" means "coot", and "atra" mean "black".