Eared Grebe Images

Eared Grebe Images
Eared Grebe in breeding plumage, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah

Eared Grebe Images, Facts and Information:

Podiceps nigricollis

  • Eared Grebes are small grebes with black upperparts including their heads and necks, white underparts, chestnut-brown flanks, and yellow-orange ear tufts in breeding plumage. They have red eyes. Winter adults are gray with darker gray upperparts with dark faces.
  • Eared Grebes are migratory.
  • Eared Grebes can be found in in the western U.S and Canada during the breeding season and they spend winter on the Pacific, Gulf coasts and rarely on the Atlantic coast. In winter they can also be found inland on open water of the southwest and Texas.
  • The preferred habitat of Eared Grebes is saline lakes, marshy lakes and ponds, open bays and oceans during the winter.
  • Eared Grebes eat small crustaceans such as brine shrimp and insects, small fish, amphibians and mollusks.
  • Eared grebes lay 1 to 9 eggs which hatch in 20 to 22 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of grebes is called a “water dance” of grebes.
  • Eared Grebes can live to be more than 8 years old.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Eared Grebe photos.

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