Grebes (/ˈɡriːbz/) are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (/ˌpɒdɪsɪˈpɛdɪfɔːrmiːz/). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with...
42 KB (3,619 words) - 01:17, 2 November 2024
The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The bird is characterised by its distinctive appearance,...
16 KB (1,386 words) - 00:09, 2 November 2024
The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small and threatened species of waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are...
23 KB (2,314 words) - 16:27, 5 November 2024
grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) is a species in the grebe family of water birds. Folk names include "dabchick", "swan grebe" and "swan-necked grebe"...
18 KB (2,173 words) - 20:38, 16 March 2024
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...
22 KB (2,773 words) - 13:26, 28 September 2024
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...
42 KB (4,942 words) - 15:48, 5 November 2024
The red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Its wintering habitat...
39 KB (4,306 words) - 01:22, 7 November 2024
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...
12 KB (1,500 words) - 16:41, 23 August 2023
(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)...
7 KB (726 words) - 02:00, 2 April 2023
The hoary-headed grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) is a member of the grebe family. It breeds in southern parts of Australia; it winters throughout the...
6 KB (618 words) - 00:42, 27 October 2024
birds in the grebe family. The genus name comes from Latin podicis, "rear-end" and ped, "foot", and is a reference to the placement of a grebe's legs towards...
14 KB (820 words) - 01:07, 2 November 2024
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...
43 KB (4,243 words) - 04:16, 14 November 2024
Chief Stuart Silbar – Col. Hanley James J. Sloyan – Spade Larkin Robert Somers – Sergeant Julie Sommars – Alice Grebe Gale Sondergaard – Aunt Augusta Gordon...
42 KB (2,172 words) - 19:40, 26 October 2024
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...
15 KB (1,518 words) - 19:57, 6 October 2024
birdlife. Amongst the species seen are mallard, coot, moorhen, great crested grebe, greylag goose, Canada goose, Egyptian goose, grey heron, marsh harrier...
31 KB (3,831 words) - 20:12, 20 September 2024
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...
26 KB (2,611 words) - 23:20, 23 April 2024
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...
69 KB (8,190 words) - 02:52, 16 November 2024
Flightless bird (section Podicipediformes (grebes))
otidiformis and A. defossor † Junín grebe, Podiceps taczanowskii Titicaca grebe, Rollandia microptera Atitlán grebe, Podilymbus gigas † (reportedly flightless)...
38 KB (3,855 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2024
Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Grebes, flamingos, buttonquail, plovers, painted-snipes, jacanas, plains-wanderer...
8 KB (820 words) - 16:17, 13 January 2024
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...
6 KB (648 words) - 18:20, 29 December 2023
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...
35 KB (2,587 words) - 23:55, 16 October 2024
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...
80 KB (10,204 words) - 02:05, 15 November 2024
"Horned Grebe". Nature Canada. Retrieved 2023-10-27. "Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)". wildlife-species.canada.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-27. "Horned Grebe (Podiceps...
18 KB (1,770 words) - 23:16, 9 October 2024
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...
14 KB (1,735 words) - 06:08, 12 November 2024
Sphenisciformes; a sometimes perceived fairly close relationship between penguins and grebes is almost certainly an error based on both groups' strong diving adaptations...
82 KB (8,050 words) - 12:00, 8 November 2024
girlfriend who left him off-screen before season 3 premiered Jonathan Grebe as John, a paramedic Ana Mercedes as Isabel Diaz, Eddie's grandmother Devin...
39 KB (3,519 words) - 12:08, 16 November 2024
Campos-Duffy, television personality Michael W. Grebe, philanthropist, lawyer, businessman and conservative activist John C. McAdams, professor at Marquette University...
117 KB (6,693 words) - 03:26, 7 September 2024
ca/st-giles-presbyterian-church-ottawa-ont-fonds;rad?sf_culture=uk Second World War plaque J. Logan-Vencta, St. Giles of Ottawa 1925-1975 (Ottawa, 1975) Official website...
7 KB (430 words) - 04:49, 19 July 2024
List of birds of Argentina (section Grebes)
White-tufted grebe, Rollandia rolland Least grebe, Tachybaptus dominicus Pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps Great grebe, Podiceps major Silvery grebe, Podiceps...
89 KB (9,822 words) - 16:46, 17 November 2024
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...
10 KB (925 words) - 06:39, 22 August 2024