GALLERIES > BIRDS > PODICIPEDIFORMES > PODICIPEDIDAE > CLARK'S GREBE [Aechmophorus clarkii] [plot on map]
Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 2, 2016 ID : B13K1337 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Lake Palmdale, CAGPS: 34.6N, -118.1W, elev=2,814' MAP Date: August 22, 2023 ID : B13K5135 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 29, 2008 ID : 9779 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Ventura (Marina Park), CAGPS: 34.3N, -119.3W, elev=3' MAP Date: January 3, 2009 ID : 7C2V2996 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 9, 2016 ID : B13K1482 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: San Joaquin Marsh, CAGPS: 33.7N, -117.8W, elev=20' MAP Date: July 15, 2012 ID : B13K0127 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 29, 2008 ID : 9774 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 29, 2008 ID : 9787 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: April 29, 2008 ID : 9791 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP Date: March 28, 2008 ID : 6819 [3888 x 2592]
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SPECIES INFO
The Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii) is a North American species of the grebe family of water birds.
Up to the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale morph of the Western Grebe, which it resembles in size, range, and behavior. Intermediates between the two species are known.
The Clark's Grebe is black-and-white, with a long, slender, swan-like neck. It ranges in size from 22"-29".
Among its distinguishing features is its bill, which is slightly upturned and bright yellow, where as the Western Grebe's bill is straight and greenish-yellow. It shows white around its eyes, whereas black appears around the eyes of the Western Grebe. The downy young are white, not gray.
This species nests on large inland lakes in western North America and migrates to the Pacific coast in winter. It maintains local populations year-round in California, Nevada, Arizona-(the Lower Colorado River Valley), and central Mexico. It feeds by diving for carp, herring, mollusks, crabs, and salamanders.
It performs the same elaborate courtship display as the Western Grebe.
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