The Pied-billed Grebe is a small, very compact water fowl. It has virtually no tail. I was once told to look in the reeds along the edge of a waterway for a duck with no butt. That would be a Grebe.
Snapshot – Pied-billed Grebe
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ― Robert Lynd
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