western grebe
aechmophorus occidentalis latin

Most of the birds affected have been Western grebes, though a few are rare pelicans.

It performs the same elaborate courtship display as the Western Grebe.

They say they have rescued about 286 birds, mostly the common western grebe and surf scoters.

It shows white around its eyes, whereas black appears around the eyes of the Western Grebe.

The Western Grebe is a species of Grebe, or bird.

It was magnificent - a winter home to shore birds, the Western grebe, white pelican and red-throated loon.

The most abundant bird is the Western Grebe, which totals eight percent of Washington's wintering population.

Western Grebe ?

At Clear Lake, the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake.

The Western Grebe is the largest North American grebe.

Volunteers collected nearly 4,300 of them, mainly western grebes and scoters, and brought them to makeshift rehabilitation centers.

Downy young of the Western Grebe display a uniform gray along the back, a white belly along with a dark patch on the forehead.

Numbers of Western grebe were found dead, their tissues containing high concentrations of DDD.

Clean-up efforts have largely been completed along the beaches, including eel grass beds and winter nesting grounds for Western grebes and other birds.

Common murres, western grebes and white-winged scoters spend all of their lives on the ocean, and are reluctant to leave even an oil slick for shore.

Western Grebes nest in colonies of hundreds on large inland lakes, sometimes using coastal marshes, in western North America.

A Western Grebe impacted and penetrated the left pilot side of the flight deck windscreen, striking and injuring the single pilot.

It is possible to see migrating Gray Whales, three types of scoter, Western Grebe, and Common Loons.

Skeletal measurements taken from both species, when averaged together, revealed that for the most part the Western Grebe is larger than the Clark's Grebe.

Common bird species treated include brown pelicans, common murres, western grebes, pacific loons, and a variety of gulls, herons, and other waterfowl.

The most easily observed are the common loon, red-throated loon, horned grebe, red-necked grebe and western grebe.

The average survival rate of oiled and treated common murres, white-winged scoters and western grebes was one-fifth to one-hundredth that of nonoiled birds.

Among its distinguishing features is its bill, which is slightly upturned and bright yellow, whereas the Western Grebe's bill is straight and greenish-yellow.

The Western Grebe gives a call that includes two distinct "cree-cree" notes, while the Clark's Grebe consists of a single "creeet" note, more drawn out.

The Clear Lake basin attracts large quantities of waterfowl, including mallards, Western grebe, coots, various species of geese, ospreys, plovers, mergansers and many others.

The Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) is a species in the grebe family of water birds.