grebe

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The latter grebe is a neotropical specialty so spotting the smallest member of the grebe family in the ABA region is a treat.

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  1. noun Any of various swimming and diving birds of the family Podicipedidae, having a pointed bill and lobed, fleshy membranes along each toe.

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  • She turned back to look at a great-crested grebe which was diving for fish. —  Wraiths And Changelings-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 53
  • “We saw a red-necked grebe, and once a black scoter came to feed.” For the first time Damien sounded like a boy. —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
  • Contact parents of children for real insight especially in Special Education needs such as Emotionally Challenged Students. yes grebe, there are large CITIES that have one district, that's because CITIES are ONE geographic area, not a collection of sites as far as an hour and 15 minutes apart.
  • There also was seen a Sun grebe, a bird that fooled many of the talented birders at the refuge since apparently very few people in North America have seen this bird. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • Martin was quoted explaining how the ex-Suede guitarist and Duffy producer Bernard Butler looks exactly like a great-crested grebe in profile. —  The Guardian World News
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  1. French grèbe.

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  1. from French grèbe, formerly grebe, griaibe (later German dial. grebe), a grebe, so named, it seems, with reference to the crested species, from Breton krib = Cornish and W. crib, a comb; cf. Breton kriben = Cornish criban = Welsh cribyn, a crest, a tuft of feathers on a bird's head; Welsh cribell, a cock's comb.
 

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