Grebe

Grebes - Family Podicipedidae
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps. Breeder. Common to uncommon in spring, rwinter, and fall, but uncommon to occasional in summer in all regions. Found on lakes, marshy ponds, and rarely in salt water.

Grebes are members of the Podicipediformes order, a widely distributed order of freshwater diving birds, some of which visit the sea when migrating and in winter.

Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica)
The Sungrebe is related to the Finfoots of Africa and South-East Asia. It acts much like a grebe which it replaces in forest streams and rivers with overhanging vegetation in tropical Central and South America.

Grebe
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(grb), common name for swimming birds found on or near quiet waters in most parts of the world.

Grebe This is a swimming bird that lives near quiet waters in most parts of the world.

Grebe, Eared aka Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis Found: The Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa
Photographed by: 1, 2) RazvanZinica 3) Alan D Wilson at Pull Off Pond, Tunkwa Lake Campground, Near Logan Lake, British Columbia
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Eared Grebe
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

Eared grebe Podiceps nigricollis
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Length: 9 inches Wingspan: 23 inches
Sexes similar
Small, stocky-bodied grebe with short, thin bill with lower mandible beveled upwards at the tip
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Eared Grebe
Podiceps nigricollis (Brehm)
Status Two sight records. The first was seen at Sambro, Halifax County, on 1 January 1967 by Charles R.K. Allen, Benjamin K. Doane and other participants in the Halifax West Christmas Bird Count.

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Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
Described by: Linnaeus (1766)
Alternate common name(s): Least Dabchick, American Dabchick
Old scientific name(s): Podiceps dominicus, Poliocephalus domincus, Limnodytes domincus ...

Horned Grebe Photos

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Eared Grebe ( Podiceps nigricollis )
Eared Grebe (Male), Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, California
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Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) is a widespread resident in India. Size: 25-29 cm
Anseriformes
Apodiformes
Bucerotiformes
Caprimulgiformes
Charadriiformes
Ciconiiformes
Columbiformes
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Little Grebe
Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings.

Horned Grebe
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Picture Grebe
Grebes make up the order Podicipediformes
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Western Grebe
Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
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The Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) occurs in the United States only in Texas, but it ranges southward to Argentina. The species is readily recognized by its bright yellow eye, which seems to glare at the observer.

Grebes (Podicipedidae)
Overview
Like all grebes it is an expert swimmer and diver. In winter plumage it is similar to a great crested grebe but has has a thicker neck, and a stout dark bill with a yellow base.

Grebes inhabit ponds, marshes, lakes and slow-moving streams. They dive to feed.
They regularly consumer their feathers. This may help to protect their stomach from the bones of the fish they dine on.

Grebes and coots compete for river resources.
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Grebes are so evolved to an aquatic existence that they build floating nests, have dense, waterproof plumage that can be adjusted for buoyancy, and need to taxi on the water's surface to fly.

Grebes (order: Podicipediformes - family: Podicipedidae)
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This grebe arrives in Alberta in mid April. It usually departs by the middle of November.
The Pied-billed Grebe eats aquatic invertebrates, small fish and amphibians. It also occasionally eats aquatic plants.

Least Grebes are much smaller than the common Pied-billed Grebe. They are very small short necked grebes with bright golden-yellow eyes. The bill is dark. In winter they'll show a white throat and in summer a dark throat.

Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus auritus - Adult in breeding plumage
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Silvery Grebe
Podiceps occipitalis
Local Name: White Grebe
Breeding Range: Falkland Islands, Chile and Argentina
Length: 28cm.
Falklands Population: ~500 breeding pairs
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Pied-billed grebes are one of the most widespread North American grebes. They can be found from Canada, south throughout the United States and into parts of South America.

The red-necked grebe is a great diver and swimmer. It often swims with just its head above the water.
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Little Grebe
Description
Distinguishing Features - Length: average 20 cm; weight: average 170 g. Both sexes similar in appearance.

Eared Grebe
(Podiceps nigricollis)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2000
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.

grebes. For proper development, eggs must lose water but this is a problem in hot, wet nest; facilitated by having 3 x more pores for water diffusion, compared with similar eggs of other species. Young carried on back of adult, occ even during dives.

Grebes
Australian Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus (Puteketeke)
New Zealand Dabchick Poliocephalus rufopectus (Weweia)
Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus ...

Grebes (Order Podicipediformes) Grebes are fish-eating diving birds with squat bodies, small heads, and short tails. Their claws are flattened like fingernails, and their toes are lobed rather than webbed.

Grebes -[Podicipediformes] . . . Gulls. . . Ibis Flamingos -[Gruiformes] . . . Pelicanformes . . . Sphenisciformes . . . Birds Waterfowl . . . Cormorants . . . Frigate Birds
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Good Grebes: In recent years, DNA-studies have had unsuspected results: Sibley & Monroe placed flamingos within their huge Ciconiiformes.

Junín grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii)
The small, declining population of flightless Junin grebes is found only in one lake in the Andes, and therefore faces an extremely high... More 4 Images 0 videos ...

Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
found in most tropical and temperate areas and often in subarctic regions.

Horned Grebe
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Grebes are divers, medium in size with stocky bodies and small heads. The toes are lobed with flattened claws and the legs are positioned far back on the body so grebes are very awkward on land.

Grebes are aquatic specialists, with lobed, rather than webbed, toes which propel and steer them underwater. Their tails are a vestigial tuft only and their large feet are set well back, making them efficient swimmers but clumsy on land.

Grebes (PODICIPEDIDAE)
Tubenoses (PROCELLARIIFORMES)
Albatrosses (DIOMEDEIDAE)
Shearwaters and Petrels (PROCELLARIIDAE)
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Eared Grebe
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Horned Grebe
Fall Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...

Clark's Grebe is more easily found this time of year (May). During the winter we see many Aechmophorus sp. grebes along the west coast, with the Western Grebe (A.cccidentalis) outnumbering Clark's (A. clarkii) by about 8:1.

At Point Lookout we enjoyed Horned Grebes in close (though I butchered my attempts to get good digiscoped shots) and more American Oystercatchers on a jetty. I did manage to get some decent shots of the oystercatchers.

Grebence, Brandon L.; White, Clayton M. 1989. Physiographic characteristics of peregrine falcon nesting habitat along the Colorado River system in Utah. Great Basin Naturalist. 49(3): 408-418. [70793] 78. Green, C. de B. 1916.

Many piscivorous birds, including egrets (Egretta spp.), herons (Ardea herodias, Butorides striatus, Nycticorax nycticorax), cormorants (Phalacrocorax spp.), terns (Sterna spp.), mergansers (Mergus spp.), grebes (Podiceps ssp., Podilymbus spp.

Usually monospecific, sometimes with other terns or with Black-necked Grebes of Little Gulls. Nest of water weed with shallow cup, built on mat of floating vegetation in water, occasionally on dry shor or resting on bottom.

Penguins are most closely related to grebes and divers. The ancestors of penguins could fly but at some point in their evolution they stopped flying and instead acquired characteristics more suited for a life of swimming and diving.

The young fish have a number of predators, including basses, grebes, frogs, loons, yellow perch, mergansers, herons, kingfishers, and ospreys.
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On the water, a long, slender neck gave Hesperornis a silhouette similar to a modern-day grebe. It probably fed and bred much like a penguin.
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From the shore of the lake, he pointed out Silvery Grebes, Andean Teal, Andean Ducks, Yellow-billed Pintail, and Andean Coots. The placid lake was smooth as a mirror. On the shore, we spied a flock of 17 Black-faced Ibis.

Various birds are also common which include pheasants, grouse, quail, dove, domestic poultry, alcids (like dovekie), and various water foul often including ducks, grebes and even medium sized geese.

- including, for instance, geese, ducks, herons, cranes, egrets, terns, sandpipers, rails, coots, plovers, ibis, grebes and phalaropes.

Sub-order i. Colymbi, Divers. Front toes completely webbed. Holarctic. Colymbus. Sub-order 2. Podicipedes, Grebes. Toes lobated. Cosmopolitan.

The principal bird species to be the major consumers of adult brine shrimp and cysts in Lake Abert, Oregon are the Northern Shoveler and the Eared Grebe. Brine shrimp comprise 30% and 17% of their diets, respectively.

See also: Pigeon, Flamingo, Woodpecker, Petrel, Pelican

Topic: Animals