Grebes (/ˈɡriːbz/) are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (/ˌpɒdɪsɪˈpɛdɪfɔːrmiːz/). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with...
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The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The bird is characterised by its distinctive appearance,...
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The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small and threatened species of waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are...
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The red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Its wintering habitat...
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grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) is a species in the grebe family of water birds. Folk names include "dabchick", "swan grebe" and "swan-necked grebe"...
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The black-necked grebe or eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It was described in 1831 by Christian Ludwig...
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Clark's grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii) is a North American waterbird species in the grebe family. Until the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale morph of...
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Frank Lewis Marsh, Edwin Y. Monsma, Duane Gish, Wilbert H. Rusch, John J. Grebe, and R. Laird Harris. The CRS was later formed in June 1963, with the...
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(1810–1898) politician Karl Christoffel (1895–1986) historian and writer Dr. John J. Grebe (1900-1984) physicist inventor for Dow Chemical Edmund Conen (1914–1990)...
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The hoary-headed grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) is a member of the grebe family. It breeds in southern parts of Australia; it winters throughout the...
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Chief Stuart Silbar – Col. Hanley James J. Sloyan – Spade Larkin Robert Somers – Sergeant Julie Sommars – Alice Grebe Gale Sondergaard – Aunt Augusta Gordon...
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Flightless bird (section Podicipediformes (grebes))
otidiformis and A. defossor † Junín grebe, Podiceps taczanowskii Titicaca grebe, Rollandia microptera Atitlán grebe, Podilymbus gigas † (reportedly flightless)...
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of the many engineers that worked on Grebe's top-of-the-line Synchrophase 7 Receivers in 1927. He states, "John Rider was a good engineer, aside from...
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Some species do not have patellas, sometimes only a cnemial crest. In grebes both a normal patella and an extension of the cnemial crest are found. The...
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Flamingo (section Relationship with grebes)
not on grebes. The fossil palaelodids can be considered evolutionarily, and ecologically, intermediate between flamingos and grebes. For the grebe-flamingo...
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birdlife. Amongst the species seen are mallard, coot, moorhen, great crested grebe, greylag goose, Canada goose, Egyptian goose, grey heron, marsh harrier...
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Podiceps oligoceanus is an extinct species of grebe possibly from the Neogene period which the specimen has been found in the United States. The species...
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Grebe Lake is a 156 acres (0.63 km2) backcountry lake in Yellowstone National Park most noted for its population of Arctic grayling. Grebe Lake comprises...
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Russ Carnahan (redirect from John Carnahan)
10A. Jim Grebing (November 4, 1990). "Words heat up as 8th District foes prepare for Tuesday vote". Southeast Missourian. p. 1A. Jim Grebing (March 30...
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S2CID 46805810. Rodrigo, Chaturaka; Eltahla, Auda A.; Bull, Rowena A.; Grebely, Jason; Dore, Gregory J.; Applegate, Tanya; Page, Kimberly; Bruneau, Julie; Morris...
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House of the Temple (category John Russell Pope buildings)
In his 1920 book L'Architecture aux États-Unis, French architect Jacques Gréber described it as "a monument of remarkable sumptuousness ... the ensemble...
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Darcy Fantasy Island as Carmen Drake (1 episode, 1978) Centennial as Alice Grebe (1 episode, 1979) Sex and the Single Parent as Bonnie (1979) Barnaby Jones...
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huge discrepancy between Bruckner's life and his work. For example, Karl Grebe said: "his life doesn't tell anything about his work, and his work doesn't...
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Margit Pfeiffer, Richard Quinn, Jonathan Greber, J.R. Grubbs, John Finklea, Shaun Farley, Shelley Roden, and John Roesch (Disney+) The Boys: "The Instant...
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was abandoned. In 1925 first the DH.53 light aeroplane and then Gloster Grebes had been launched from the airship R.33. In 1930, the US Navy airship USS Los...
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Columbimorphae (mesites, sandgrouse and pigeons) Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes) The three orphaned orders: Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruiformes (cranes...
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Lady" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1890) (collected in A Group of Noble Dames) "The Melancholy Hussar of...
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Rice, "Propulsion System", issued 1961-08-22, assigned to Carl E. Grebe Friauf, J.B. (February 1961). "Electromagnetic ship propulsion" (PDF). Journal...
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Pacific coasts. Due to the heavy itinerary, she was towed by the minesweeper Grebe. She went as far north as Bar Harbor, Maine, south and into the Gulf of...
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Julian Huxley (redirect from J. S. Huxley)
especially the courtship of water birds. His 1914 paper on the great crested grebe, later published as a book, was a landmark in avian ethology; his invention...
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