Birdwatch: Catching up with an elegant, dwindling flycatcher
Sep 01, 2022
2 minutes
BY JOAN COLLINS
The pied-billed grebe is New York’s only breeding grebe species. It is a brown-colored, small, diving waterbird. Compared to a mallard, it has less than half the weight and wingspan. Most of the time you hear this bird making its loud rhythmic wailing “kaow, kaow, kaow” long before you see it.
A grebe is not a duck. Grebes have lobed toes,
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