Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

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The pied-billed grebe has the widest distribution in the Americas of any grebe, breeding from northern Canada through the West Indies and Central America to southern South America. It is a common resident of freshwater marshes, lakes, and sluggish rivers, and, in winter, brackish estuaries. Secretive, it usually nests in emergent vegetation. Seldom seen in flight, it migrates at night, landing before or at dawn on the nearest body of water. Most study papers about the pied-billed grebe are from temperate North America and are either anecdotal or deal with a single aspect of its life history. Information on breeding biology is available, as well as about eggs, incubation, and food allocation to chicks in the wild. Incubation and chick development in captivity have been described; grebe parasites have been discussed. Remaining to be discovered are many details about molt, behavior, and development of the young. In addition, population biology over the species’ entire range is in dire need of study.

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Full Citation: Muller, Martin J., and Robert W. Storer. 1999. Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps). No. 410 in: The Birds of North America: life histories for the 21st century. Alan Poole and F. Gill, editors. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Ornithologists' Union. 32 pp.

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