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 ...

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 ...

The story of the pied-billed grebe was a bit different. For a few weeks, I saw the grebe in the shallows. Each day that I came by, I would see this small gray-brown bird with black markings on the ...

As a grebe, it is a diving bird that forages for most of its groceries underwater. Like other grebes, the pied-billed grebe’s toes are lobed not webbed like those of a duck.

Pied-billed grebes are mostly brown in color, with darker upperparts and lighter underparts. In the breeding season, the neck and crown feathers darken, and the throat turns black.

A breeding adult pied-billed grebe swims along in a pond. Take note of the black stripe across the bill for which the bird is named. The bird lacks the stripe in the non-breeding season.

Pied-billed grebes, the smallest of six grebe species found in Minnesota, are most often found in quiet water with emergent vegetation. They mind their own business, disappearing when you pay too ...

The pied-billed grebe is a small secretive bird in the fall, keeping a low profile with head down when swimming on the surface, but spending long periods underwater, often in the shallows near shore.

The Pied-billed Grebe begins to pop up locally as a spring migrant in mid-March, mostly on small marshy ponds lined with thick vegetation, but also on lakes and slow moving rivers.

This pied-billed grebe, seen by Nature Nut in the Whitewater Valley, while technically not a bird of prey, feeds almost solely on other smaller animals, diving underwater for them. (Greg Munson) Share ...

Birders across New York and beyond are invited to register for the 28th Annual Montezuma Muckrace, a 24-hour birding event set to begin Friday, September 5 at 6 p.m. and end Saturday, September 6 at 6 ...

Often mistaken for ducks, grebes belong in their own group, with 22 species found in aquatic habitats throughout the world. The pied-billed is far and away the most common in Minnesota, but a ...