Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Get your binoculars out quickly because birdwatchers in the U.K. just spotted two rare birds. The red-necked ...

We made the grebe run on the first day of June – Thursday last week. We are Erik Fritzell, biologist and birder, and myself, bird columnist. Lamentably, our run took us farther and found fewer species ...

Two of Minnesota's lesser-known water birds are grebes, including the red-necked grebe and the western grebe. Grebes eat fish, mostly minnows. They're smaller than a loon and have the profile of a ...

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 ...

WILLMAR -- It's a bird you very likely have seen now and then, but didn't necessarily recognize. It's a red-necked grebe, and some are believed to nest on wetlands or small lakes in Kandiyohi County.

As soon as the ice on Silver Lake in Harriman State Park melted several weeks ago, migrating birds began to pour in. Hundreds, if not thousands, of birds of many species have been using the lake as a ...

Minnesota is home to all manner of migratory birds who make stops here to proliferate over spring and summer before returning to wintering grounds far to the south. Of all the species that trek north ...

Many lakes in the Anchorage Bowl are home to nesting red-necked grebes. They build floating nests attached to reeds or other anchor plants in the shallows. Both male and female grebes take part in ...