Birds that dive underwater — such as penguins, loons and grebes — may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving kin, a new study finds. Many water birds have evolved highly specialized bodies ...

In a near-freezing lake, I’m treated to an up-close view of one of my favourite birds ...

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 ...

Kylie Clatterbuck, wildlife center manager for International Bird Rescue, releases a Western grebe back into the water. Credit: International Bird Rescue photo More than a dozen Western grebes were ...

Since early November, more than 120 seabirds — primarily western grebes, a diving creature with red eyes and sharp yellow bills — have been rescued along the Central Coast after a mysterious ...

Lake Berryessa reservoir in eastern Napa County is California’s hot spot when it comes to grebes with mercury in their bloodstreams. A new U.S. Geological Survey study looks at blood mercury in the ...

THE NEAREST LAKE or pond usually offers the opportunity to see a common bird, but a secretive one. Pied-billed grebes are among the smallest members in the grebe family but they range over a wider ...

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 ...

If your bird watching is limited to your backyard, you probably haven't encountered a western grebe, unless there's a good-sized lake in your backyard. On the other hand, if you fish the big lakes ...