Red-necked Grebe Images

Red-necked Grebe Images, Facts and Information:

Podiceps grisegena

• Red-necked Grebes are large with gray backs and black caps, have white underparts and gray flanks, cheeks are white, neck is chestnut to red-brown, eyes are brown, bills are long, thick and sharp.
• Red-necked Grebes are migratory. They breed from Alaska and northern Canada south to Oregon, Idaho, Montana, southern Minnesota, and Ontario. Spends winters along the coast of California to Georgia. Breeding habitats include lakes and ponds.
• Red-necked Grebes feed on fish, crayfish, tadpoles, salamanders, aquatic insects, and plants.
• Red-necked Grebes lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 20 to 23 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of grebes is called a “water dance” of grebes.
• Red-necked Grebes can live to be at least 11 years old.

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