"Pied-billed grebe" Quotes from Famous Books
... at the flash of a gun and swim long distances under water. Our familiar Pied-billed Grebe or Dabchick disappears so suddenly, that 'Water Witch' is ... — Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... extinction are the golden plover, American woodcock, pied-billed grebe, red-throated loon, sooty shearwater, gadwall, ruddy duck, black-crowned night heron, Hudsonian godwit, kildeer, northern pileated woodpecker, chimney swift, yellow-bellied flycatcher, red-winged blackbird, pine finch, magnolia warbler, ruby-crowned ... — Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |