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 ...

Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

Sheila A. Mahoney and Joseph R. Jehl, Jr. Data from captive Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) suggest that the birds do not like the taste of Mono Lake (California) water, which is highly alkaline ...

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 ...

Lake Berryessa reservoir in eastern Napa County is California’s hot spot when it comes to grebes with mercury in their bloodstreams. A new U.S. Geological Survey study looks at blood mercury in the ...

Since early November, more than 120 seabirds — primarily western grebes, a diving creature with red eyes and sharp yellow bills — have been rescued along the Central Coast after a mysterious ...

Shallow, marshy areas on Lake Osakis have long been a popular nesting area for western grebes — a bird that winters on the Pacific coast before spreading east to establish a mate, which includes a ...