Once upon a time the Earth was mostly covered with water. Then, loons arrived. The water loving grebes were the next birds. The star of this article is the rare sighting of the western grebe in ...

Watch a waterbird through binoculars and you can determine its identity by its size, shape and feather colors. Seldom is an identity made by seeing only its feet. But for a few birds that flit through ...

There is much to admire about the pied-billed grebe, including the way it submerges, easily and often. Lake Onota in Pittsfield is one of five large bodies of water in the upper Housatonic Valley of ...

With the marshes across the southern part of the state escaping their rigid ice bonds, waterbirds will be returning soon. Among the superstars such as Canada geese, great blue herons, night-crowned ...

Most of us will go that extra mile to win the affections of the partner of our dreams - but few can say they have ever walked on water. Yet this is exactly what grebes must do in order to get a mate.

Bird watching enthusiasts from across the state have been flocking to the Oswego Harbor recently, hoping to catch a glimpse of a Clark's grebe - a western bird that's never been seen in Upstate New ...

It inhabits wetlands from rivers and lakes to estuaries and sheltered bays, but favours large, deep, open bodies of fresh water. It has a long neck and head with a distinctive black double crest, dark ...

Back in the day, birders would have to drive to the Lower Rio Grande Valley to see the small ducklike bird called least grebe. Nowadays, we can find the teensy bird on the pond at Memorial Park’s Clay ...

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been ...

Utah wildlife officials estimate 15,000 to 25,000 eared grebes have died in recent months from a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak across the Great Salt Lake, causing dead birds to pile up ...