Grebes

Australasian Grebe

Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

The Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) is a 219 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It stays put all year.

Family

Grebes

Order

Podicipediformes

Weight

219 g

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

6

Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons