Todd Grebe was facing some hard decisions. He and his wife, fiddle player Angela Oudean, were at a musical crossroads after the seminal Alaska bluegrass band Bearfoot dissolved. Meanwhile, Oudean was ...

You have seen them though you may not have noticed them. They swim the waters of pond, lake and reservoir and some larger rivers. They are as much a part of local marshes as are cattails. You have ...

Claim to fame: Pied-billed grebes are among the more secretive residents of Missouri’s wetland areas, which makes sightings of these small, duck-like birds a special occurrence for birders and nature ...

A pied-billed grebe swimming at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. In small ponds, lakes and marshy areas, pied-billed grebes are a relatively common sight. A rather solitary species, pied-billed ...

The Hooded Grebe wasn’t discovered by scientists until 1974, due mainly to the fact that it lives in one of the most remote and inhospitable environments on Earth: the windswept plateaus of southern ...

GRAND FORKS – Six kinds of grebes nest in North Dakota, and I’ve made it a mission to find them all. Actually, I have found them all, but never in a single year. That’s the challenge. I am hoping to ...

I received a report that a Western grebe might be hanging out off The Point development in Iredell County a couple of weekends ago. After contacting the reporter about the location of the bird I was ...

Shallow, marshy areas on Lake Osakis have long been a popular nesting area for western grebes — a bird that winters on the Pacific coast before spreading east to establish a mate, which includes a ...