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AUSTRALASIAN GREBE FACTS |
Description The non-breeding plumage of both the male and female Australasian Grebe is dark grey-brown above and mostly silver-grey below, with a white oval patch of bare skin at the base of the bill. During the breeding season, both sexes have a glossy-black head and a brown stripe from behind the eye down the neck, and the patch of skin at the base of the bill becomes yellow.
Size 26cm
Habitat freshwater ponds and small waterways
Food mall fish and water insects
Breeding Lays 4-5 pale blue eggs in a nest made of floating vegetation anchored to a submerged branch or reed
Range throughout Australia
Credits: Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
Class: | Aves | Order: | Podicipediformes | Family: | Podicipedidae | Genus: | Tachybaptus | Species: | novaehollandiae | Common Name: | Australasian Grebe |
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