Metro Atlanta Help identify this bird.

[carver]

I watch the eagles at Berry college,they bring Coots to feed there eaglets all the time.

 

[kgrant32]

Lol

 

[RWiseman]

There are tons of the in Virginia. I worked up there for a couple of years and saw them often.

 

[mustang-3537]

American Coot: Has a large gizzard some people eat or use in gravy. Not a duck.

http://www.larkwire.com/library/bird-sounds/372/American-Coot-songs-and-calls

 

[Bullfrog81]

That's a water chicken

 

[Falcon1]

That's a water chicken

I prefer the thunder variety of chicken better.

 

[yoggibaer]

That coot's a hoot!

 

[chevytrader]

resembles that snipe people have had nighttime group hunts with 1 person holding a burlap bag.......

 

[MSAA]

I'll give you a dollar for it!

 

[Joann Smith]

I found this bird today in the back parking lot of the at&t building that I work at in downtown Atlanta. Very weird looking and he wasn't scared of me. Talked to a couple of other employees and they said he has been here for a while.

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think it is in the loon family.