Horned Grebe Images

Horned Grebe Images, Facts and Information:

Podiceps auritus

  • Horned Grebes are small grebes that in breeding plumage have red-brown necks, breasts, and flanks with black throats, bills, and backs and red eyes. Their heads have black caps, white faces and orange to yellow ear plumes. In winter plumage adults have white cheeks, throats and breasts, dark crowns and backs.
  • Horned Grebes are migratory. Horned Grebes breed from Alaska and northern Canada to Washington, northern Montana and the Dakotas. They winter in the Aleutians, along the Pacific coast to California, along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Texas to upper Florida.
  • Their preferred breeding habitats include prairie and freshwater lakes containing both open water and marsh vegetation, marshes, sloughs, ponds and rivers.
  • Horned Grebes eat crustaceans, insects, small fish, leeches, salamanders, tadpoles, and plant material.
  • Horned Grebes lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 22 to 25 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of grebes is called a “water dance” of grebes.
  • Horned Grebes can live to be more than 5 years of age.

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