Pied-billed Grebe Images, Facts and Information:
Podilymbus podiceps
- Pied-billed Grebes are small, brown, chunky birds that swim, they have slender necks and large heads with small bills. While breeding the bill turns whitish with a single black band.
- Some Pied-billed Grebes are migratory and some are year round residents. Year round residents will migrate short distances when ponds and lakes freeze solid to find open water.
- Pied-billed Grebes prefer small ponds and marshes with vegetation for cover, during the winter they will congregate in larger bodies of water.
- Pied-billed Grebes eat vegetation, amphibians like frogs and tadpoles, crustaceans, fish, insects, snail and beetles.
- Pied-billed Grebes lay 2 to 10 eggs which hatch in 23 to 27 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- Nicknames for Pied-billed Grebes include “water witch”, “devil diver”, “dabchick” and “Hell diver”.
- A group of grebes is called a “water dance” of grebes.
- Pied-billed Grebes can live at least 4 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Pied-billed Grebe photos.
Immature Pied-billed Grebe being chased over the water
Title: Immature Pied-billed Grebe being chased over the water
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/21/2016
Pied-billed Grebe with a large fish
Title: Pied-billed Grebe with a large fish
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2015
Shaking Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Shaking Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2015
Autumn colors and a juvenile Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Autumn colors and a juvenile Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/22/2015
Juvenile Pied-billed Grebe with reflections of Autumn
Title: Juvenile Pied-billed Grebe with reflections of Autumn
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/22/2015
Pied-billed Grebe in breeding plumage
Title: Pied-billed Grebe in breeding plumage
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/19/2015
Pied-billed Grebe and still water
Title: Pied-billed Grebe and still water
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/17/2014
Golden Reflections with Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Golden Reflections with Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/26/2014
Pied-billed Grebe shaking it off
Title: Pied-billed Grebe shaking it off
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/28/2014
Common Merganser being aggressive towards a Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Common Merganser being aggressive towards a Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser biting a Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Common Merganser biting a Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Pied-billed Grebe wing lift
Title: Pied-billed Grebe wing lift
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Another Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings
Title: Another Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings
Title: Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings on a cold January morning
Title: Pied-billed Grebe flapping its wings on a cold January morning
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
A Pied-billed Grebe and its wake
Title: A Pied-billed Grebe and its wake
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
A Pied-billed Grebe with prey being chased over a pond
Title: A Pied-billed Grebe with prey being chased over a pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/14/2014
Coy looking juvenile Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Coy looking juvenile Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2011
Juvenile Pied-billed Grebe stretching
Title: Juvenile Pied-billed Grebe stretching
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2011
Juvie Pied-billed Grebe at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Juvie Pied-billed Grebe at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2011