Common Gallinule - Buena Vist Park, CA
Always easily identifiable by candy corn beak and always close to water, this rail family member is a standard of Southern California. Definitely out numbered by its stockier cousin the American Coot in California, this bird gets more numerous as you head south into Central and South America. one difference of the two birds are the feet with Coot having a lobed padded food where the Gallinule has none.