THE NEAREST LAKE or pond usually offers the opportunity to see a common bird, but a secretive one. Pied-billed grebes are among the smallest members in the grebe family but they range over a wider ...

With the marshes across the southern part of the state escaping their rigid ice bonds, waterbirds will be returning soon. Among the superstars such as Canada geese, great blue herons, night-crowned ...

There is much to admire about the pied-billed grebe, including the way it submerges, easily and often. Lake Onota in Pittsfield is one of five large bodies of water in the upper Housatonic Valley of ...

Claim to fame: Pied-billed grebes are among the more secretive residents of Missouri’s wetland areas, which makes sightings of these small, duck-like birds a special occurrence for birders and nature ...

Birds that dive and forage for fish in the Salish Sea, including this western grebe, are 11 times more likely to experience population declines than other birds in the area. Diving birds were 11 times ...

The big bird news this month of July 2020 has been the pied-billed grebe. The word “big” here refers to the news, for the grebe is not a big bird. Neither is it uncommon. What made the bird big news ...

AUBURNDALE — A Western grebe, a rare winter straggler from the Pacific coast, is attracting a lot of attention on Auburndale's Lake Ariana. “This is the first Polk County record and one of only about ...

Many kinds of bird regularly forage for prey underwater. These birds have a variety of ways of doing so and adaptations to match. Life in the water is very different from life in the air. The first ...

Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...