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 ...

A low fog drifted over the glassy lake surface as we snaked quietly through trees by grabbing branches to move our small boat. The first rays of sunrise were chasing away the pre-dawn grays, adding a ...

Just over 20 grebe species inhabit the world today. The group is technically known as the Podicipediformes, though there’s a long history of this name being spelt in various alternative ways and the ...

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 ...

Kylie Clatterbuck, wildlife center manager for International Bird Rescue, releases a Western grebe back into the water. Credit: International Bird Rescue photo More than a dozen Western grebes were ...

Lake Berryessa reservoir in eastern Napa County is California’s hot spot when it comes to grebes with mercury in their bloodstreams. A new U.S. Geological Survey study looks at blood mercury in the ...

Shallow, marshy areas on Lake Osakis have long been a popular nesting area for western grebes — a bird that winters on the Pacific coast before spreading east to establish a mate, which includes a ...

GRAND FORKS – Six kinds of grebes nest in North Dakota, and I’ve made it a mission to find them all. Actually, I have found them all, but never in a single year. That’s the challenge. I am hoping to ...

Waresley, Cambridgeshire: In a near-freezing lake, I’m treated to an up-close view of one of my favourite birds The spring-fed lake is a picture of tranquillity this morning. On the far side, ivy-clad ...