Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
The Pied-billed Grebe is distributed throughout most of North and South America from southern Canada to southern Argentina.
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Description
The pied-billed grebe is a small, brown diving bird. They have short tails and wings, and legs that are set well back on their bodies.
Pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps
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Length: 9 inches
Sexes similar
Small, stocky-bodied grebe with a short, thick bill
Brown plumage, darker on the crown and back
White undertail coverts ...
Pied-billed Grebe
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Pied-billed Grebe ( Podilymbus podiceps )
Pied-Billed Grebe, Birding Center, Port Aransas, Texas
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Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podiceps
The Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a very common and widespread waterbird which is found across the United States and much of Canada. It ranges as far south as southern South America.
Pied-billed Grebe: Medium-sized, stocky grebe with brown upperparts, paler brown underparts with barred sides and flanks, and distinct white undertail coverts. Chin is black and bill is white with central black ring. Eyes are dark. Sexes are similar.
Pied-billed Grebe Behaviour
No observations regarding Pied-billed Grebe behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Pied-billed Grebes ...
The pied-billed grebe can be found in marshes and ponds. It may move to saltwater habitats when freshwater habitats freeze.
Diet The pied-billed grebe eats mostly aquatic invertebrates, although it will sometimes eat fish, reptiles and amphibians.
Pied-billed Grebe
(Podilymbus podiceps)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Possible but not likely
1992 to 1996: Possible but not likely
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus)
Status Uncommon in summer, rare in winter. Breeds.
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps
Atitlán Grebe, Podilymbus gigas - extinct (1989)
Genus Rollandia ...
1. Pied-billed Grebe, Alameda, California
2. Black-crowned Night Heron (juvenile), Alameda, California
3-4. Snowy Egret Courting Display, Alameda, California ...
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. Low Conservation Concern.
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Tanager
Piranga ludoviciana (scientific)
Western tanagers do not naturally have red feathers on their heads.
Pied-billed Grebe
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Red-necked Grebe
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The male and female Pied-billed Grebe build a platform nest over the water. The female does most of the incubating and both parents care for the young, which are often carried on the parent's back while swimming and even while diving.
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus: Lake Perris State Recreation Area, Perris, CA, 03 Jan ...
Tape-recorded calls of Pied-billed Grebe, American Bittern, Least Bittern, Virginia Rail, ...
Pied-billed Grebe - 1 off Brackett's Road in Rye. Double-crested Cormorant - 373 migrating south in flocks up to 50 in size.
RICHARD HARLAN, received two Pied-billed Grebes alive, which had been caught in a fishing-net on Brandywine creek. We placed them in a large tub of water, where we could see all their subaqueous movements.
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.
The best-known representative in the Western Hemisphere is the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, locally called dabchick, water witch, and didapper.
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.
This is the only family in this order.
Species in this family:
Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollic)
Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps )
Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegna) ...
 See also: Grebe, Duck, Swallow, Coot, Sparrow
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