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Horned Grebe - (Podilymbus auritus) 

Identification

  • Small diving bird, short straight bill
  • Lobed toes rather than webbed feet
  • Breeding plumage: golden to pale yellow
         ear tufts, reddish brown neck, black
         cheek, red eye
  • Fall and winter plumage: dark and light
         greys, white cheek and neck
  • 14” (35 cm)

Habitat

  • Large lakes and rivers with extensive
         backwaters
  • Occasionally on smaller ponds

Additional Information

  • Young ride on parents back
  • Rare migrant in the Kickapoo Valley
         due to lack of appropriate habitat

Male Horned Grebe on water

Female Horned Grebe on water

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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