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Winter:
Head with a black cap extending down to eye level
White cheek, throat and neck
Red eye
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Quick Check
A small tailless diving bird with a thin straight bill.
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Image Bank: Data to be processed
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Habitat: Foreshore
Birds arrive in late September and stay until late March
Feeding:
Early Dec.
Seven horned grebes observed at high tide catching needle-fish within 5m of shore above the sandy bottom of English Bay Beach. The violently wriggling fish appeared to be slurped-up like a strand of spaghetti.
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