The Pied-billed Grebe is a small unassuming bird. It spends its time sitting on the water - usually a small lake - and diving for small fish and other food.
It occurs throughout North American, Central America and the northern part of South America. Surprisingly, it sometimes shows up in Europe.
Classification:
Order: Podicipediformes
Family: Podicipedidae
Genus: Podilymbus
Species: P. podiceps
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Pied-billed Grebe (female)
grebe chick
pied-billed grebe and tiny chick on back
Pied-billed Grebe on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Click this icon to see all public photos and videos tagged with Pied-billed Grebe Pied-billed Grebe. SWR � Click this icon to see all public photos and videos tagged with Sacramento National Wi… Read more…
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Adult Pie-billed Grebe in winter plumage. I first thought this was a juvenile because of it’s small size and not showing the ring around the bill. But the ring develops only during breeding… Read more…
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Stithians-birding: Record number of hits
Stithians has thrown up many rarities including Britains first Crag Martin, the county’s only Baillon’s Crake as well as things like Pied Billed Grebe, Bairds Sandpiper, American Lesser… Read more…
Pied-billed grebe « Behind the Bins
Pied-billed grebe. Jump to Comments. Licking a banana ice cream cone and strolling the embarcadero, I stopped to watch an immature pied-billed grebe swimming close-by. A young man sittin… Read more…
Bear Creek beauties, seen through the fog « Towheeblog
There were Coots, of course, , PIed-billed Grebes and three Wilson’s Snipe came whirling up from pond-edge grasses. Unsual for this valley: a Great Egret rose from one lakeshore and then perc… Read more…
Good Acres: Rambling Around Stow Lake II - More Waterfowl and Turtles
Third, I spotted the pied-billed grebe (podilymbus podiceps) on Stow Lake. These birds are usually solitary. The adults have a distinctive black bill ring. Stow-6. Juvenile pied-billed grebe… Read more…
