Not sure where this bird is from, my best guess is Australia

[Stan]

anyone know?

[Tom Wetmore]

That is an American Coot. It is a North American species.

[Bravus]

He has stylin' toes! I bet the other birds are jealous and buggin' their moms to buy them some...

[Tom Wetmore]

It is an interesting adaptation crossover between ducks and wading birds. They are very common in Florida. They typically wade around feeding in the shallow water, but can swim away like a duck.

[Dottie]

So, that is what my dad was referring to when he called another person an "old coot!"

[Amelia]

Their breeding habitat is marshes from southern Quebec to the Pacific coast of North America and as far south as northern South America. Birds from temperate North America east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to the southern United States and southern British Columbia.