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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)
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