grebe
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- n small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet
- Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks.
- But in the warm months, 40,000 California gulls still nest on the volcanic islands, and migratory grebe and phalaropes turn the lake into an ornithological stew.
- From the great crested flycatcher all the way to the least grebe, they totted up tally after tally.