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 ...

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 ...

A pied-billed grebe swimming at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. In small ponds, lakes and marshy areas, pied-billed grebes are a relatively common sight. A rather solitary species, pied-billed ...

Pied-billed grebes' distinctive look and behavior make them well known among water birds. There is no folk name for the song sparrow. Most people don't know the bird, and don't really care.

I remember years ago, leading a group of high school students on a canoeing expedition down the Zumbro River below Silver Lake. As I looked ahead, I could see a small bird floating in the water ...

Looking at the plump, top-heavy bird as it floats slowly across the water's surface, it is hard to believe that it can fly, let alone cross the Atlantic. Yet that's exactly what this little creature ...

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 ...

While pied-billed grebes are sometimes confused with loons or ducks in appearance and share some characteristics, this species of waterfowl are in a class of their own. Like many birds, pied-billed ...

As the spring ice thaws, a dweller of the aquatic world emerges. The Pied-billed Grebe begins to pop up locally as a spring migrant in mid-March, mostly on small marshy ponds lined with thick ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, also known as the pied-billed dabchick, photographed at San Bernard Refuge National Wildlife Refuge, near Galveston, Texas, USA. Identifying the fish species ...