The grebes glided about with new feather-collars around the neck; and the jack-snipes were gathering straws for their nests.
Little grebes and kingfishers would not want for food in such a place.
In powers of swimming and diving, grebes are not surpassed by any of our water birds.
All grebes have lobate-webbed feet, that is each toe has its individual web, being joined to its fellow only for a short distance at the base.
They get these from the rockweed along the shores or by diving; they are good swimmers, using both their feet and wings to propel them through the water, the same as do the grebes and loons.
The American Eared Grebe belongs to the order of Diving Birds (Podicipedes) and the family of Grebes (Podicipidae).
The apparent lack of a tail and the ruffs, frequently composed of variously colored feathers, give the grebes a peculiarly characteristic appearance.
Owing to the inadequately developed wings, the Grebes are poorly provided with means for protracted flight.
The grebes are abundant throughout the world, seemingly preferring lakes and rivers as a foraging ground rather than the seacoast.
Closely related to the loons, the Grebes differ from them in having the head incompletely feathered near the nostrils, which are not lobed.
The Grebes have the head small, the neck somewhat elongated, the legs attached to the abdomen, the tail rudimentary, the tarsi compressed, the anterior toes united at their base by a membrane.
Grebes are inhabitants of the old and new Continents.
The Grebes and the Singing Mouse Quonab puzzled long over the amazing fact that young Van Cortlandt had evident high standing "in his own tribe.
The ice was safe for a dog; the divers or grebes were still on its surface.
Last winter about 13 exhausted grebes and one loon were picked up, cared for and finally shipped with tender care to the Zoological Park.
In diving, Grebes sometimes spring partly from the water and then plunge downward head first, or they may quietly sink with scarce a ripple to mark the place of their disappearance.
Grebes occasionally rest on the shore, but are rarely found far from the water.
The Grebes and Loons, when pursued, dive rather than fly; the Auks usually take wing.
Grebes are at home in reed-grown ponds or sloughs where their nests are made on rafts or islets of water-soaked vegetation.
The young of both Grebes and Loons are born covered with feathers and take to the water shortly after birth, often using the back of the parent bird as an ever present island on which they may rest at will.
Loons and Grebes are swimming birds, like Ducks or Gulls, but both belong to quite a different order from any of the others and each of them belongs to a family of its own.
The ducks left at once, but the grebes sought safety in diving, and as soon as the fusillade began a number of gulls came hovering around, apparently to learn the cause of the racket.
There were great numbers of grebesand ducks in the bay, and I asked the dock foreman if there was any rule against shooting there.
It dives deeper than the scoter duck, which is taken only on beds of shellfish left bare by the ebb-tide; while the Grebes are taken in the open sea, often at more than twenty feet depth.
Those who have visited Paris will probably have seen the grebes in the window of the restaurateur in the Rue de Rivoli.
Grebes have a way of swimming with the whole body under water, when the exposed head and neck look very "snaky.
Grebes abound on all northern waters and are rarely shot since the taking of their silvery breasts for hat ornaments has been stopped.
The brown and white plumage of grebes is exceedingly close and dense, and their indifference to wet and cold is shown by the fact that their nests are mere rafts of sodden weeds often so loosely tied to the rushes that they go adrift.
A nest full of young grebes just hatched, with the mother swimming behind, pushing them along with her beak, or towing them by the loose end of a twig, must be a very singular and interesting sight.
But I expect the grebes are very good sailors, and know when to look for bad weather.
The grebes have a peculiar habit of plucking off the soft feathers from the under side of the body and swallowing them.
The Grebes fly well; dive with great dexterity, but their movements on the ground are not graceful.
It may be readily distinguished from the other European Grebes by its decidedly up-curved bill, and by the large amount of white on the primaries and secondaries.
The Grebes have a complete moult in autumn, and assume their nuptial ornaments in spring.
The twenty or so species of Grebes are grouped into a single family, called Podicipedidae, of which the genus Podiceps (or more correctly Podicipes) contains the greater number.
It is only during the winter months that the Grebes become pelagic or marine in their habits, and even some species are much less addicted to a sea life than others.
The Grebes are so little in evidence to the seaside naturalist that an account of them seems more like a digression in our narrative, than a continuation of our observations concerning the bird life of the sea.
The Divers are allied to the Auks on the one hand, to the Grebes on the other, although systematists are not yet agreed upon the degree of their relationship.
Grebes in general, though averse from taking wing, have much greater power of flight than would seem possible on examination of their alar organs, and are capable of prolonged aerial journeys.
Young grebes are beautiful objects, clothed with black, white and brown down, disposed in streaks and their bill often brilliantly tinted.
Thus the eggs of the plover are pear-shaped, of the sand-grouse more or less cylindrical, of the owls and titmice spherical and of the grebes biconical.
How differently do the grebes fight--by diving, and using the beak under water!
The nest of these dabchicks seemed to me to be a larger structure, in proportion to their size, than those of the crested grebes which I had watched last year.
The grebes are much sought after for their plumage, but their shyness and their great agility in diving and swimming under water render them extremely difficult to shoot.
A pair of grebes has for many years nested annually on a fresh-water loch in Gairloch parish; in some years there have been two pairs on the same loch; and sometimes another pair has nested on a loch about two miles away.
The Least Grebe is by far the smallest of the Grebes in this country, being but 10 in.
They do not congregate in such large numbers as the other Grebes during the nesting season, but one or more pairs may be found in almost any favorable locality.
They vie with the Grebes in diving and disappear at the flash of a gun.
As do all the Grebes when leaving the nest, they cover the eggs with the damp rushes from around the base of the nest.
These little Grebes nest very abundantly along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, the nesting season lasting from the latter part of May until well into December.
They lay from three to six eggs of a dingy white color which have the stained surface common to Grebes eggs.
Members of the family of Grebes are to be found in the temperate zones of both hemispheres, beyond which they do not extend very far either to the north or south.
Coot and moorhens paddle in and out of the reeds, and great grebes float leisurely about its surface.
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