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Horned grebe Podiceps auritus
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Length: 9.5 inches Wingspan: 24 inches
Sexes similar
Small, stocky-bodied grebe with a short, thin bill
Black bill, often with a pale tip ...
Horned Grebe
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Horned Grebe
Relatives in same Genus
Eared Grebe (P. nigricollis) ...
Horned Grebe
Megadyptes antipodes
The Horned Grebe (Megadyptes antipodes) nests in fresh water marshes and lake edges across much of Canada and parts of the northern United States in the Great Plains area.
Horned Grebes are common in the Weaselhead/Glenmore area during spring and fall migration periods. In fact, it is not uncommon to see several pairs of Horned Grebes at once in the water north of the Calgary Sailing Club during the month of October.
Horned Grebe: Small grebe with red-brown neck, breast and flanks, and nearly black throat and back. Head has black cap, white face, and conspicuous buff-orange to yellow ear plumes. Bill is dark with white tip and eyes are dark red. Sexes are similar.
Horned Grebe
(Podiceps auritus)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Horned Grebe
Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus)
Status Fairly common transient, uncommon in winter, very rare in summer.
THE HORNED GREBE.
[Horned Grebe.]
PODICEPS CORNUTUS, Linn.
[Podiceps auritus.] ...
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus auritus - Adult in breeding plumage
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Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
found in most tropical and temperate areas and often in subarctic regions.
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This project is administered by BirdLife International, under the auspices of the Waterbird Conservation Council, the guiding body for Waterbird Conservation for the Americas.
Horned Grebe
The Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus) is drab during most of the year, except for its brilliant red-orange eye.
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus. Fairly common in winter in Tennessee Valley and Gulf Coast regions, but uncommon to rare in Mountain and Inland Coastal Plain regions. Found on lakes, bays, and in the Gulf. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.
Horned Grebe
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Horned Grebe
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Pied-billed Grebe
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The Horned Grebe has a head black with chestnut ear patches.
The Pied-billed Grebe is the same size, darker in winter, when
throat markings are lacking, it has a more rounded bill than
other grebes.
Loon (6) Horned Grebe (3) Red-necked Grebe (3) Northern Gannet (4): 3 ads, 1-3W. Great Cormorant (9) Black Duck (6) RING-NECKED DUCK (1m.) Com. Eider (141) KING EIDER (1-1W male)-Flew past NW to SE.
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus: Lake Perris State Recreation Area, Perris, CA, 03 Jan
Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena: Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA, 29 Jan ...
Slavonian Grebe or Horned Grebe, Podiceps auritus
Black-necked Grebe or Eared Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis ...
They also may nest in proximity to Horned Grebes (Podiceps auritus), Pied-billed Grebes (Podilymbus podiceps), Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis), American Coots (Fulica americana), or Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) (Abbott 1902, Roberts 1932, ...
Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
(aka Horned Grebe)
The Slavonian Grebe breeds mainly in the sub-arctic, boreal zone in Europe, across Siberia and in North America. A few breed in Britain and Loch Ruthven near Inverness is a key site.
Podicipediformes - Grebes
Podicipedidae
Tachybaptus
Tachybaptus ruficollis - Little Grebe
Podiceps
Podiceps auritus - Horned Grebe
Podiceps nigricollis - Black-necked Grebe ...
best-known representative in the Western Hemisphere is the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, locally called dabchick, water witch, and didapper. Other grebes are the western and Holboell's grebes of North America and the eared and horned grebes ...
Atlantic Puffins, Common Murres, Herring Gulls, Common Terns, Roseate Terns, Manx Shearwaters, Horned Grebes and Laughing Gulls are regularly culled by the Great Black-backs.
 See also: Grebe, Eared Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, Loon, Duck
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