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 ...

There is no folk name for the song sparrow. Most people don't know the bird, and don't really care. Pied-billed grebes, however, are much better known, to the point where they have several names ...

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 ...

The big bird news this month of July 2020 has been the pied-billed grebe. The word “big” here refers to the news, for the grebe is not a big bird. Neither is it uncommon. What made the bird big news ...

A pied-billed grebe swimming at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. In small ponds, lakes and marshy areas, pied-billed grebes are a relatively common sight. A rather solitary species, pied-billed ...

I remember years ago, leading a group of high school students on a canoeing expedition down the Zumbro River below Silver Lake. As I looked ahead, I could see a small bird floating in the water ...

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-billed ...

As the spring ice thaws, a dweller of the aquatic world emerges. The Pied-billed Grebe begins to pop up locally as a spring migrant in mid-March, mostly on small marshy ponds lined with thick ...

My daily walks take me by a pond close to the road allowing for very good viewing. As we went through the weeks of spring, this wetland provided exceptional watching seasonal changes with birds. It ...

We made the grebe run on the first day of June – Thursday last week. We are Erik Fritzell, biologist and birder, and myself, bird columnist. Lamentably, our run took us farther and found fewer species ...