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Horned Grebe at Sunset Bay Last View 2

Interesting fact about horned grebe that I found on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology site: "•The Horned Grebe regularly eats some of its own feathers, enough that its stomach usually contains a matted plug of them. This plug may function as a filter or may hold fish bones in the stomach until they can be digested. The parents even feed feathers to their chicks to get the plug started early. "
Horned Grebe non-breeding (Podiceps auritus)

Podiceps auritus Horned Grebe grebe diving bird aquatic bird aquatic water fowl white rock lake dallas texas sunset bay uncommon lifer new species for me rare sighting swimming nonbreeding plumage