GRAND FORKS – Six kinds of grebes nest in North Dakota, and I’ve made it a mission to find them all. Actually, I have found them all, but never in a single year. That’s the challenge. I am hoping to ...

The wide diversity of birds on earth should be a reminder to us all that the natural world is a place where life takes all shapes, colors and forms. I was reminded of this recently while running my ...

Clear Lake, Calif., is a shallow, 40,000-acre body of fresh water that lies about 100 miles north of San Francisco. For centuries, it was home for a large colony of Western grebes, lovely birds that ...

What Does a Horned Grebe Look Like? “Can you identify this bird?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Tommy Sharp of Crossville, Tennessee. Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “Although this swimmer ...