Sheila A. Mahoney and Joseph R. Jehl, Jr. Data from captive Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) suggest that the birds do not like the taste of Mono Lake (California) water, which is highly alkaline ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...