Pied-billed Grebes are small, stocky, and short-necked.

Pied-billed Grebes are found in freshwater wetlands with emergent vegetation, such as cattails.

Pied-billed Grebes live approximately 10 – 12 years.

Pied-billed Grebes rarely fly.

* Grebes: Pied-billed Grebe, Eared Grebe

Even the small freshwater Pied-billed Grebe of North America has occurred as a transatlantic vagrant to Europe on more than 30 occasions.

Outside its own genus, the closest relatives of the Pied-billed Grebe are the small grebes of the genus Tachybaptus.

The Common Moorhen is the commonest native waterbird with very small numbers of American Coot and Pied-billed Grebe breeding.

Podilymbus is a genus of birds in the Podicipedidae family, containing the extinct Atitlán Grebe ( Podilymbus gigas ) and the Pied-billed Grebe ( Podilymbus podiceps ).

Grebes make floating nests of plant material concealed among reeds on the surface of the water.

* Konter, André ( 2001 ): Grebes of our world: visiting all species on 5 continents.

* An episode of the children's TV series Arthur titled " The Curse of the Grebes " has Elwood City's baseball team losing two of its games in the world championship series due to events based directly on Bucky Dent's homer and Bill Buckner's error.

Animals that form lasting pair bonds often have symmetrical displays that they make to each other: famous examples are the mutual presentation of reeds by Great Crested Grebes, studied by Julian Huxley, the triumph displays shown by many species of geese and penguins on their nest sites and the spectacular courtship displays by birds of paradise and manakins.

Timlin, alongside former teammates Johnny Damon and Edgar Rentería, made an appearance on the TV cartoon Arthur, providing his voice for the Elwood City Grebes pitcher " Winlin.

Black Necked Grebes at Woolston Eyes nature reserve, right next to the M6 motorway, Peregrine Falcons nesting on buildings in Birkenhead, and Sponges and Korean Sea Squirts in the docklands ( no sign of Richard or Judy ).

As early as 1918, the Royal Air Force launched Sopwith Camel fighters from HM Airship 23, and tried again with Gloster Grebes on the R. 33 in 1925.

A wide variety of native waterfowl and other birds are seen on or near the lakes, including Great Crested Grebes, moorhens, Canada Goose, herons, swans, cormorants and a wide variety of ducks, as well as aquatic insects such as damselflies and dragonflies.

In 1932 a pair of Black-necked Grebes bred at the lake, the only occasion on which this species has been recorded breeding in Somerset.

The Black-necked Stork is a carnivore and its diet includes water-birds such as coots, and Little Grebes, Northern Shoveller, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, a range of aquatic vertebrates including fish, amphibians and reptiles and invertebrates such as crabs and molluscs.

Black-necked Grebes of the nominate subspecies P. n. nigricollis in the cooler temperate regions of the Old World also winter further south, with many European birds moving to the Mediterranean area.

Species which are spotted regularly include Herons, Kingfishers, Cormorants, Grebes, ducks and also a wide range of woodland songbirds.

Grebes are small to medium-large in size, have lobed toes, and are excellent swimmers and divers.

Grebes are small to medium-large water birds with lobed, rather than webbed, toes.

The highest totals for individuals of a species included 13, 873 California Gulls ( an inland nester at Mono Lake and elsewhere ); 9, 218 American Avocets ; 1, 767 Eared Grebes ; 13, 826 ‘ Peeps ’ or small Sandpipers such as Dunlin, Western and Least Sandpipers ; and 2, 882 individual ducks.

The lake regularly hosts small numbers of common waterfowl, including breeding Little and Great Crested Grebes and Mute Swan, and wintering Tufted Duck and Pochard.

Grebes are fed feathers with which to line the stomach, and so protect it from fish bones.

The lake is home to six species of fish, as well as white-clawed crayfish, Great Crested Grebes, Moorhens, Coots, Tufted Ducks and Teal.

* October 21-British airship R. 33 makes further parasite fighter tests, releasing two Gloster Grebes from 2, 500 ft ( 762 m ).

A much larger group that contains several genera which feed their young mainly on seeds.

Hydras mainly feed on small aquatic invertebrates such as Daphnia and Cyclops.

They feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter, over-ripe fruit, and sap.

In contrast, no matter how voracious, mosquitoes that breed and feed mainly in remote wetlands and salt marshes may well remain uninfected and seldom encounter humans to infect in turn anyway.

This pulp, insoluble in water and mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and pectin, is used in animal feed.

Although the peanut was mainly a garden crop for much of the colonial period of North America, it was mostly used as animal feed stock until the 1930s.

It also yields coconut cake which is mainly used as feed for livestock.

Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds, and fungi in addition to invertebrates and small vertebrates.

California sea lions feed on a wide variety of seafood, mainly squid and fish, and sometimes clams.

For example, Ross seals and southern elephant seals mainly feed on squid.

These birds feed mainly on vegetation — buds, catkins, leaves, and twigs — which typically accounts for over 95 percent of adults ' food by weight.

Members of the family Japygidae are mainly predatory and use their pincer-like cerci to capture prey, including springtails, isopods, small myriapods, insect larvae, and even other diplurans, while members of the family Campodeidae feed on soil fungi, mites, springtails and other small soil invertebrates, as well as detritus.

Sea urchins feed mainly on algae, but can also feed on sea cucumbers and a wide range of invertebrates, such as mussels, polychaetes, sponges, brittle stars and crinoids.

The Adélie penguin is known to feed mainly on Antarctic krill, ice krill, Antarctic silverfish, and Glacial Squid ( diet varies depending on geographic location ) during the chick-rearing season.

Platypuses feed on insect larvae, worms, or other freshwater insects hunting mainly by night by the use of their bill.

The honey possum is mainly nocturnal but will come out to feed during daylight in cooler weather.

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They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.

A few, for example the redtoothed triggerfish ( Odonus niger ), mainly feed on plankton.

Egyptian Vultures feed mainly on carrion but are opportunistic and will prey on small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers ; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae ( maggots ) eat a wide range of foods.

Their bodies are densely covered by bristles, and adults feed mainly on nectar and pollen.

In the eastern Himalayas in November, Alpine Choughs occur mainly in juniper forests where they feed on juniper berries, differing ecologically from the Red-billed Choughs in the same region and at the same time of year, which feed by digging in the soil of terraced pastures of villages.