mud hen

noun

noun

Canada, US Any of various rails and coots, especially the Virginia rail (Rallus limicola), or the American coot (Fulica americana).

They went to the sloughs to shoot mud hens and brought home a bag of the tiny, black, greasy birds.1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Harper Perennial, published 2009, page 91:

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