PIED-BILLED GREBE

 

1364                PIED-BILLED GREBE              Podilymbus podiceps

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The pied-billed grebe is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas. Other names of this grebe include American dabchick, rail, dabchick, Carolina grebe, devil-diver, dive-dapper, dipper, hell-diver, pied-billed dabchick, pied-bill, thick-billed grebe, and water witch

NEW ZEALAND DABCHICK

Photographed at Miranda, June 2017

1202                NEW ZEALAND DABCHICK                Poliocephalus rufopectus 

NEW ZEALAND             53

Found in sheltered parts of lakes, farm ponds, and in winter, sewerage ponds. 29 cm. About 1700 in North Island, rare in South Island.