Swimming Bird

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

Gentoos are the fastest underwater swimming bird, reaching speeds of 36 km/h (22.3 mph).
Genyornis
Genyornis and its relatives have been nick-named the 'demon ducks'.
Geoffroy's black and white colobus ...

At low water, it is surrounded to a great distance by mud-flats abounding in food for wading and swimming birds, while the plants, the fruits, and the insects of the island itself, supply many species that are peculiar to the land.

common name for large wild and domesticated swimming birds related to the duck and the swan. Strictly speaking, the term goose is applied to the female and gander to the male.

Gentoo Penguins are the fastest swimming birds.
HIGHEST FLYER
The highest flyer is Ruppell's griffon vulture. One collided with an airplane off the Ivory Coast in 1973 at 37,000 feet (11,278 m).

White Pelicans fish cooperatively by forming a circle of swimming birds, "herding" the fish towards the center, then scooping them up in their huge throat pouches. The expandable throat pouches serve as fishing nets, not for Food storage.

When hunting over open water, peregrine falcons use high-speed, low-level flights, using the waves to conceal their approach and taking swimming birds by surprise [28].

This adaptation, shared with other waterbirds like grebes and phalaropes, is useful both to propel the swimming bird and to facilitate passage over matted floating vegetation.

American White Pelicans are notable for their habit of cooperative foraging—coordinated flocks of swimming birds encircle fish or drive them into the shallows where they become concentrated and are more easily caught.

1872 (hind-limb of swimming birds); G. Rolleston, " On the Homologies of Certain Muscles connected with the Shoulder-joint," Trans. Linn. Soc., xxvi., 1868; R. W. Shufeldt, The Myology of the Raven (London, 1891); M.

See also: Duck, Swallow, Goose, Grebe, Falcon