Pied-billed Grebe

Description
12-15' . Pigeon-sized. A stocky, uniformly brownish water bird, with stout whitish bill what has black ring around it during breeding season.
Voice
A series of hollow, cuckoo-like notes, cow-cow cow-cow, cow, cowp,cowp cowp, taht slows down at the end; various clucking sounds.
Habitat
Marshes, ponds; salt water in winter if freshwater habitats freeze.
Nesting
5-7 whitish eggs, stained brown, in a well- hidden, floating mass of dead marsh vegetation anchored to adjacent plants.
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