If the kingfisher can find a living and abundant fish in our rivers and brooks, why does the dabchick migrate?
The Dabchick lays five or six long-shaped eggs, pointed at either end, of a chalky white colour.
I have never myself seen a Dabchick fly through the air or walk on land, neither have I ever heard its note.
The dabchickfirst bred in St. James's Park about fifteen years ago, and last summer, 1897, as many as seven broods were brought out.
As it is, the dabchick seldom succeeds in hatching eggs, and even the semi-domestic and easily satisfied moorhen finds it hard to rear any young.
Mr. Gould seems to think that the dabchick likes insects and fish spawn better than fish, or at least more prudently dines upon them.
Old Hankey Pankey' caught up the telescope that Mr Dabchick had just deposited on the slab, putting it to his eye.
Possibly both in regard to this, as well as the way in which he dives, the dabchick may be in a transition state.
I have seen it stated, I think, that the dabchick has no tail, or that he has no tail to speak of.
Yet the black guillemot is a fair flier, having to ascend the precipices, and the dabchick too, for the matter of that, can if he chooses rise into the air and fly seriously.
It will be remembered that what I have just recounted took place early in February, whereas the dabchick does not, in my experience, commonly build before May.
It is interesting to find the little dabchick of our ponds and streams diving sometimes in the manner of the shag and cormorant, though, of course, tempered with his own little soft individuality.
I say that the dabchick sometimes dives like this, for he has many ways of doing so, and it is not very often that he will repeat the same thing twice in succession.
Of course, no more than with the dabchick is there the same tremendous vigour, the wonderful supple virility which lives in the leap of this strong-souled sea robber.
In their small size and rounded shape, in their deariness, their pretty little ways and actions, in everything, almost, these little black guillemots are the marine counterpart of the dabchick or little grebe.
The first of these is that attractive and delightful little creature, the dabchick or little grebe (Podiceps fluviatilis), a bird whose society I have always cultivated to the best of my ability.
All at once, my eye caught something move on this, and, turning the glasses upon it, I at once saw that a dabchick was sitting on its nest.
Whenever I saw them, this dabchick and one chick were always by themselves.
Though an alphabet of letters may follow his name, thedabchick is a sealed book to any one who writes of it like that.
The little grebe or dabchick (Podiceps albipennis) is another species that lays in July or August.
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