black-necked grebe
eared grebe
podiceps nigricollis latin

Among those first to die were cormorants and black-necked grebes.

The reservoir is a bird watching site and Black-necked grebes have been sighted here.

Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.

He was the first person to show evidence that Black-necked Grebes breed in Britain.

Like all grebes, the Black-necked Grebe nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set very far back and it cannot walk well.

The Panel's logo is a Black-necked Grebe.

Over 1.5 million Black-necked Grebe and phalaropes use Mono Lake during their long migrations.

In winter, and variety of wildfowl feed at the site including smew, scaup, black-necked grebe and dunlin.

Black-necked Grebe - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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.

("Wing moult in the Black-necked Grebe in the Antwerpen area.")

The name "Eared Grebe" was in usage nearly a century before the name "Black-necked Grebe".

Other birds seen include the black-necked grebe, which is rare in the United Kingdom, and the nightingale, which was extinct in Nottinghamshire before 2004.

It is one of the most bird-rich areas in Western Europe, with resident black-necked grebes and sometimes migrating common cranes in October/November.

The Black-necked Grebe is an excellent swimmer and diver, and pursues its prey underwater, eating mostly fish as well as small crustaceans, aquatic insects and larvae.

Studland Bay is particularly good for sighting rarer grebes and divers in winter, with up to 20 Black-necked Grebe and 5 Great Northern Diver recorded.

Nocturnal migrants taken by Peregrines include species as diverse as Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-necked Grebe, Virginia Rail, and Common Quail.

The Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) known in North America as the Eared Grebe, is a member of the grebe family of water birds.

No party of more than three Black-necked Grebes has been noted since 1960, and most reports are now of single birds; these occur inland about as often as do Slavonian Grebes.

In addition to Red-necked and Black-necked Grebes, Mallards, and Eurasian Coots, one can find Common Mergansers and Great Northern Divers here.

An large diversity of natural habitats is responsible for an abundance of wildlife of which the best known are the birds: purple heron, black-necked grebe, bittern, marsh harrier, whiskered tern, short-toed eagle.

It is used as a deposit for canal dredgings and is a habitat for many species of bird, including Black-necked Grebes, Grasshopper Warblers, Blackcaps and Common Whitethroats.

During the winter, Great-crested and Black-necked grebes, Red-crested Pochards, Mallard, Common Teal (Anas crecca), and Common Merganser are common.

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.

The southern African race of the Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis gurneyi, was named by South African zoologist and author Austin Roberts in 1919 in honour of the father and son.

Over 1.5 million eared grebes and phalaropes use Mono Lake during their long migrations.

The Eared Grebe is a rare site in the park, as Lakeland is near the northern edge of the species' range.

With a mask, I saw eared grebes dive and swim below the surface, their powerful legs jettisoning them through the water faster than I could swim.

The North American subspecies, P. n. californicus is known as the Eared Grebe (or "eared diver").

The shrimp-filled lake is nesting place for 50,000 California gulls and an important stopover on the Pacific flyway for migratory birds like phalaropes and eared grebes.

Wildlife commonly seen in the area of the park include hawks, pelicans and other water birds, including Clark's, Western, and Eared Grebes and Black Tern.

Like the Eared grebe, the Western Grebe is a rare sight in Lakeland Provincial Park and Recreation Area.

Interestingly, the eared grebe is essentially flightless for most of the year (9 to 10 months), and serves as an example of one of the most inefficient flier among avifauna.

It also hold over 50 species of birds including the Cardinal, House Wren, Peregrine Falcon, Eared Grebe and the Blue Winged Teal.

The Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) known in North America as the Eared Grebe, is a member of the grebe family of water birds.

During the annual migrations, it hosts tens of thousands of Eared Grebes, Wilson's Phalaropes, Red-necked Phalaropes, American Avocets, Killdeer, and Northern shovelers.

Birdwatching is a popular activity in the park: Species include Franklin's gull, tundra swan, black tern, eared grebe, northern pintail, yellowlegs, dowitcher, pectoral sandpiper, American avocet and other sandpipers.

From the boat, we also saw a variety of water birds, among them snowy and great egrets, great blue herons, anhingas, eared grebes, ring-billed gulls, hooded mergansers, American oystercatchers and ruddy turnstones.

These include Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Spotted Sandpipers, Wilson's Phalaropes, Red-necked Phalaropes, Black Terns, Eared Grebes, Horned Grebes, and Cinnamon Teal.

Walking just a few steps along a beach, he came across the plump, feathered carcass of an eared grebe, the black, sun-dried body of a double-crested cormorant and thousands of fish bones lying just beyond the tiny waves lapping at the shore.

Those who linger are joined by eared grebes, diving birds that feed and molt at Mono Lake, as many as 750,000 or a million in October, and at night, by moonlight, the lake may look as if it's studded with small black stones.

Among the most commonly treated include brown pelicans, western gulls, northern fulmars, western grebes, American coots, American white pelicans, eared grebes, common murres, pacific loons, common loons, black-crowned night herons, great blue herons, mallard ducks, and Canada Geese.