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Behind a barbed wire fence was a bare-sided bathtub of a flooded gravel pit with nothing much on show. A few round-backed coots dozed close to the shore, a smattering of blobs sat farther out on the ...

Little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis (synonyms, Podiceps ruficollis and Tachybaptus fluviatilis; protonym, Colymbus ruficollis), Pallas, 1764, also known as the common grebe, as the common or little ...

Only decades after its discovery in the high-altitude lakes of Patagonia, Argentina, Hooded Grebe was teetering on the brink of extinction. Since then, the bird with the spectacular courtship dance ...

AUBURNDALE — A Western grebe, a rare winter straggler from the Pacific coast, is attracting a lot of attention on Auburndale's Lake Ariana. “This is the first Polk County record and one of only about ...

With the onset of winter, hundreds of migratory birds have once again started flocking to the Indian subcontinent on their annual journey, including to the water bodies of Rajasthan. Many species that ...

At least 16 years after it was last spotted at Harike in Punjab, a flock of horned grebe or Slavonian grebe — a rare Eurasian migratory bird — has been spotted at Dighal, a village in Haryana’s ...

An endangered bird has been spotted making a rare visit to Wales. The Slavonian grebe was spotted at a nature reserve in the coastal resort town of Rhyl, Denbighshire. The bird is "red-listed" by the ...

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