How To Use Grebe In A Sentence
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Another shows how the grebes' lobed feet travel in a nearly circular pattern when they dive underwater, with the toes folded and rotated to decrease water resistance on the backstroke.
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A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
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On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
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More than 218 species have been recorded on the reserve, including mallards, teal, widgin, great crested grebes, pochard, wild geese and Canada geese.
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Your correspondent say the rescued eagle owl and grebe at the eco-station. They had been put in two boxes and were to be sent to the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre for treatment.
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These incoming crowds are, in turn, boosting numbers of fish-eating birds, such as herons, kingfishers, and grebes.
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Little grebes may be expected in the vicinity of Breydon Water all year; up to 20 breeding pairs occupy reedy dykes at Berney and alongside the south wall.
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Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
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The little grebes are also duller after the moult.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kingfisher, heron and little grebe are also now a common sight.
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During winter Horned Grebes are a very common visitor on the coast, in Puget Sound, and in other inland marine waters.
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Why are grebes, among all the waterbirds, so difficult to maintain in captive environments?
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Why do many helminth species, apparently grebe specialists, use dragonfly nymphs as intermediate hosts?
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Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks.
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These incoming crowds are, in turn, boosting numbers of fish-eating birds, such as herons, kingfishers, and grebes.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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There were several pairs of great crested grebes but there were also good numbers of tufted duck, pochard, gadwall mallard and teal.
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Cranes and their relatives belong to an old and wide-ranging group of birds that includes rails, coots, sungrebes, kagu, sunbitterns, roatelos, buttonquail, cranes, limpkins, trumpeters, seriemas, and bustards.
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Well, I know pelicans and swans but I wouldn't know a grebe from a budgerigar.
What I cooked last night.
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Other residents include egrets, moor hens, herons, coots, white-necked storks, lapwings, grey wagtails, grebes, black droungos, green bee-eaters, tailorbirds, magpies and robins as well as numerous species of migratory birds like flamingos that often visit the place.
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Our surveys have shown that the state has over 180 species of resident birds including jabiru storks, 5 species of ibises (including the scarlet), most of Venezuela's herons, sungrebes, sunbitterns, yellow knobbed curassows, scarlet macaws, hoatzings and a great number of raptors.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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Zach and I paddle a dugout in the failing light, looking for caimans and anacondas in the marsh grass that is closing in on the open water, but we see only a pair of sungrebes paddling around.
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Part II includes seven thematic chapters covering the biogeography, ecology, behavior, life history, and conservation of grebes.
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March 31st, 2010 at 9: 22 pm dbadass says: so pretend grebe doc do you have any thoughts as to the updates of the Georges bank yellowtail rules?
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The trust has recorded birds at Woodchester Park in Gloucestershire and created an online audio guide to some of Britain's best-loved species, from favourites such as the robin and members of the tit family to the blackcap and great-crested grebe.
Beat winter blues with birdsong, National Trust urges
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Throughout these valleys Red-necked Grebes are found on sloughs, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, not on moving water.
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Several species of grebes and divers feed in the shallows offshore.
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In migration Pied-billed Grebes can be found at higher elevations, even in mountain lakes.
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Little grebes breed on ponds, small lakes and meres, flooded gravel pits and beet factory settling ponds.
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Copy this and post it everytime lame ass appears … Cram it down his sorry ass throat as if it were a pied bill grebe ….
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On the river and in the ponds we saw the finfoot, a bird with feet like a grebe and bill and tail like those of a darter, but, like so many South American birds, with no close affiliations among other species.
IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
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A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
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Together, the male and female Western Grebe build a floating nest made of heaps of plant material anchored to emergent vegetation in a shallow area of a marsh.
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Ducks and grebes are flying about in search of rivers and other unfrozen waters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their most exciting conclusion was that rampant convergence had occurred between these two parallel radiations: metavians include hoatzins, mesites and grebes, while coronavians include turacos, passerines and divers, for example (if those lists are lost on you, hoatzins are similar to touracos, mesites are similar to some passerines, and grebes are similar to divers).
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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Remember those grebe populations you did your thesis work with?
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The resort habitat covers orchard, meadow, forest edge, broadleaf and riparian habitats which attract many different species from black and white owls, sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard.
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And speaking of Jude Greber - Jude and Chassie are both 'spotlighted' - along with other great gals - on the current Evil E - which - by the way (!) - features an interview with Louise and her new book - THE FAULT TREE.
Catching it from behind, lobbing it forward
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The Dams is regarded as an important regional reserve with 218 recorded species - including teal, widgeon, great crested grebe, pochard, wild geese, water voles and great crested newts.
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On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
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The sungrebe is a New World species found in parts of Mexico and through most of Central and South America.
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• Other species you can hear include wood pigeon, carrion crow, blue tit, blackcap, mallard, pheasant, coot and the great-crested grebe.
Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
A Traveller in Little Things
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They wore winter drabs, and I couldn't decide whether they were Australasian or Hoary-headed grebes.
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Most are small families of uncertain relationships including such groups as limpkins, sungrebes, sunbitterns, and bustards.
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Western Grebes are highly gregarious in all seasons, wintering in large flocks and nesting in colonies.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 10: 23 pm dbadass says: vet tech at the grebe farm …
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Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks.
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One single species of grebe, which is uneatable, found no grace in the eyes of the young merchant; this was the “caiarara,” as quick to dive as to swim or fly; a bird with a disagreeable cry, but whose down bears a high price in the different markets of the
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Year round residents include rare species such as black-collared hawk (Busarellus nigricollis), grey-necked wood-rail (Aramides cajanea), least grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) and Black-Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax).
Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves
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Yet it is plausible for the Eared Grebe because, except for large but irregular die-offs involving losses to disease and migration, annual mortality appears to be low.
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In this book, we are treated to numerous such sketches that accurately illustrate many of the behavioral quirks of grebes, some of which are nearly impossible to capture on film.
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If you think the $12.50 in your wallet qualifies as ‘health insurance’ the dread IRS will send an agent to your door and hold a grebe to your head until you either pony up or go to jail.
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i wonder if el grebe and esquire of emiction went to the same school on that foreign island.haiti. wasitdunno.
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Bird species to be seen include ringed plover, oystercatcher, redshank and little grebe.
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The cause of the disturbance: a sparrowhawk sweeping low across the tideway and heading straight for a little grebe swimming in the main channel.
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Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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An estimated 1.5 million eared grebes, 50,000 Wilson's phalaropes, 50,000 California gulls, and 200 snowy plovers visit Mono Lake each spring and summer.
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The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The Horned Grebe is a small grebe with a straight bill, thick neck, and squarish head.
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A day when you see a grebe is a day which is not completely wasted.
Mongabay.com News
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 6: 13 pm dbadass says: by addressing Eugene Debs instead the pretend grebe doc displays a hardly subtle indicator of exactly where the pretend grebe doc stands in the social heirarchy.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water.
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This family consists of three species, two types of finfoot and the sungrebe of tropical America.
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I don’t get why he doesn’t know anything about grebes … Still that crazy reddish egret is way cooler ….
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Your correspondent say the rescued eagle owl and grebe at the eco-station. They had been put in two boxes and were to be sent to the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre for treatment.
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Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks.
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For instance, kingfishers and sungrebes fly ahead and away from boats heading up or down the creek, sometimes for kilometers at a stretch.
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Divers, grebes, geese, ducks, raptors, auks and passerines are the most affected especially in very hard weather which results in the surface of lakes and reservoirs freezing.
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Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus.
Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
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The grebe can fly but usually doesn't unless trying to avoid a predator or when migrating south in the winter.
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On the river and in the ponds we saw the finfoot, a bird with feet like a grebe and bill and tail like those of a darter, but, like so many
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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One single species of grebe, which is uneatable, found no grace in the eyes of the young merchant; this was the _ "caiarara," _ as quick to dive as to swim or fly; a bird with a disagreeable cry, but whose down bears a high price in the different markets of the Amazonian basin.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Great crested grebes are courting out on unfrozen lakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Going around the lake I observed crested grebes, coots, moorhens, ducks, swans and herons.
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Eared Grebes are typically gregarious in nesting season, living in colonies that sometimes number thousands of individuals.
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Although large rafts of these birds can be seen in the Atlantic in winter, Washington's wintering Red-necked Grebes are solitary.
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Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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From sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard.
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The park has a really cool hawk tower where you can look down on the Olive Sparrows and ducks, grebes and herons on the water.
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Going around the lake I observed crested grebes, coots, moorhens, ducks, swans and herons.
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The Horned Grebe is a small grebe with a straight bill, thick neck, and squarish head.
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Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds.
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Each January, FWC participants comb New York State lakes, rivers and shorelines to count ducks, geese, and swans as well as associated water birds like loons, grebes, cormorants, and coots.
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Bird watchers also visit to see the crested grebes which nest here.
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In the summer of 1992, and apparently for the first time, two pairs of splendid great crested grebes successfully bred on the river in the city centre rearing broods of young.
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The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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A western grebe wears a fatal coat of oil from a spill off California in 1969.
