Horned Grebe
Posted in Grebe on April 22, 2018 by macpherc
http://www.wisconsinbirds.org/plan/species/hogr.htm
Scientific:
Podiceps auritus
Order:
Podicipediformes
Family:
Podicipedidae
Genus:
Podicpes
Danish: Nordisk lappedykker
Greenlandic: No translation found
Length: 12.2-15.0 in (31-38 cm)
Weight: 10.6-20.1 oz (300-570 g)
Wingspan: 21.6-25.2 in (55-64 cm)
Fun Fact: The Horned Grebe regularly eats some of its own feathers, enough that its stomach usually contains a matted plug of them. This plug may function as a filter or may hold fish bones in the stomach until they can be digested.
Karl-Birger Strann, XC401780. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401780.
References:
Avibase The World Bird Database (2018). Podiceps azurites. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=018B316959E84738
Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.
Stedman, Stephen J. 2000. Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.