Sparteye couldn't resist : "all we have here is coots and loons" But what kinds of birds?

Being made of sterner stuff I shall say simply that we have loons at Loon Lake in New Hampshire. Their cry at night across moonlit water is hauntingly eerie and beautiful.

There was also a character called "Loon" in a comic strip
(name escapes) about the newspaper business. "Loon" was the photographer and was portrayed as a camera-bedecked caricature of the loon. I think the artist chose loon as there is a mental connection between loon and looney (crazy in a nice, sort of befuddled, way) as photogs all have the reputation for being a bit looney.
So naturally the photog at our paper was immediately dubbed ....
wow