As the spring ice thaws, a dweller of the aquatic world emerges. The Pied-billed Grebe begins to pop up locally as a spring migrant in mid-March, mostly on small marshy ponds lined with thick ...

A pied-billed grebe swimming at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. In small ponds, lakes and marshy areas, pied-billed grebes are a relatively common sight. A rather solitary species, pied-billed ...

I remember years ago, leading a group of high school students on a canoeing expedition down the Zumbro River below Silver Lake. As I looked ahead, I could see a small bird floating in the water ...

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 ...

While pied-billed grebes are sometimes confused with loons or ducks in appearance and share some characteristics, this species of waterfowl are in a class of their own. Like many birds, pied-billed ...

With the marshes across the southern part of the state escaping their rigid ice bonds, waterbirds will be returning soon. Among the superstars such as Canada geese, great blue herons, night-crowned ...

Every year local Audubon chapters throughout the country conduct Christmas bird counts in strategic habitats appropriate to their specific region. The Pintler Chapter of southwestern Montana is no ...

Well, March is fast approaching and spring isn’t far away, which is good because I am tired of the dreariness of winter. And it’s not that I can’t handle the cold, and snow is awesome, it’s just that ...