Western Grebe Images, Facts and Information:
Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Western Grebes are large black and white grebes with cherry-red eyes that breed in lakes and ponds in western North America.
- They our largest grebe in North America being only fractionally larger than Clark’s Grebes.
- The Western Grebe, like other grebes, spends almost all its time in water and is very awkward when on land.
- Western Grebes often nest in colonies that can number in the hundreds or even thousands.
- Western Grebes are migratory in much of their range and will winter off of the Pacific Coast.
- Folk names for Western Grebes include Dabchick, Swan-necked Grebe and Swan Grebe.
- A group of grebes is called a “water dance” of grebes.
- They lay between 1 to 7 eggs which take 23 to 24 days to hatch. Both parents incubate.
- Western Grebes can live to be 15 years old.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Western Grebe photos.
Rushing Western Grebes dancing across the water
Title: Rushing Western Grebes dancing across the water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/3/2012
Rushing Western Grebes
Title: Rushing Western Grebes
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/3/2012
Rushing Western Grebes with a blackbird
Title: Rushing Western Grebes with a blackbird
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/3/2012
Head on Western Grebe
Title: Head on Western Grebe
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2010
Western Grebe adult flapping its wings
Title: Western Grebe adult flapping its wings
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
Western Grebe with an eye on another bird
Title: Western Grebe with an eye on another bird
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
Western Grebe flapping wings
Title: Western Grebe flapping wings
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
Western Grebe chasing another grebe
Title: Western Grebe chasing another grebe
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010
A courting pair of Western Grebes
Title: Courting pair of Western Grebes
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2010
Western Grebe on bubbly water in low light
Title: Western Grebe on bubbly water in low light
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2010
Western Grebe juvenile with open bill
Title: Western Grebe juvenile with open bill
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/6/2009
Stretching young Western Grebe
Title: Stretching young Western Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/2/2009
Resting Western Grebe
Title: Resting Western Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/2/2009
Young Western Grebe with feather
Title: Young Western Grebe with feather
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/2/2009
Western Grebe flapping its wings
Title: Western Grebe flapping its wings
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/18/2009
Western Grebe family
Title: Western Grebe family
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/16/2009
Western Grebe in open water
Title: Western Grebe in open water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009
Western Grebe profile
Title: Western Grebe profile
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009
Partially submerged Western Grebe
Title: Partially submerged Western Grebe
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009
Western Grebe, Bear River MBR, Utah
Title: Western Grebe, Bear River MBR, Utah
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2009