CANDIDATE - RARE

Pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps Photo Credit: Victor Loewen, Animal Diversity Web.

OVERVIEW: The pied-billed grebe is a small water bird, about 31-38 cm (12-15 in), with a blunt beak that bears a single distinctive stripe in the mating season. Male and female adults are both drab brown with white rumps and diagnostic black patches on the throat and forehead; the chicks are striped in sharp black and white. Because pied-billed grebes are secretive, especially during their breeding season, their population size and distribution are not known in detail.

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