What bird is this!?

[SonOfTheSouth]

looks like a purple gallinule based on my google search results! Thanks guys!

[Thumper]

Witchfooted Marsh Hen

[johnpaul]

purple gallinule

[johnpaul]

Strange that his plumage does not appear full. It should be beautiful this time of the year.

[SonOfTheSouth]

Strange that his plumage does not appear full. It should be beautiful this time of the year.

maybe its the lighting showing more black instead of the purple hue. Or it could be the pretzel diet!

[Smart]

Peule deau and marsh hens are not the same thing. A marsh hen is a gallinule or rail. Purple gallinules and king and clapper rails are all called marsh hens down here in the Louisiana marsh. A peule deau is a coot. Different birds with different limits.

Yup...the peule deau/coots have webbed feet...

[El_matador]

Purple Gallinule

[Duckologist]

Yup...the peule deau/coots have webbed feet...

Well, webbed toes actually

[systemnt]

pretty sure thats the ****in crow from game of thrones and somewhere theres a kid in a homemade wheelchair sitting under a tree seein' what you just did thinkin you were alone on that boat.....

[Buck Slayer]

Jesus, those feet!

[SaltwaterSlick]

What we always called a peule deau is actually a Grebe and not a coot. We called the Gallinule's a "Moor hen" and a coot was a coot... Funny how different locale's identify things in "slang" terms... I mean a dang white perch ain't no sock-a-lay... Even hard for me to recognize them as a crappie cause they dang sure ain't crappie! Thay's dang good eatin'!!

[Gunnyart]

Them are some big azz feet is all I know!

I didn't even see the feet... I thought it was sitting on a pile of branches. Yikes

[Duckologist]

What we always called a peule deau is actually a Grebe and not a coot. We called the Gallinule's a "Moor hen" and a coot was a coot... Funny how different locale's identify things in "slang" terms... I mean a dang white perch ain't no sock-a-lay... Even hard for me to recognize them as a crappie cause they dang sure ain't crappie! Thay's dang good eatin'!!

We call grebe's hell divers.

[lovemylegacy]

Peule deau and marsh hens are not the same thing. A marsh hen is a gallinule or rail. Purple gallinules and king and clapper rails are all called marsh hens down here in the Louisiana marsh. A peule deau is a coot. Different birds with different limits.

I have heard this argument since I was a kid and I grew up in Cajun Country

[Duckologist]

I have heard this argument since I was a kid and I grew up in Cajun Country

What argument?