How to Use grebe in a Sentence

grebe

noun

• About then a small group of eared grebes came floating by in the slow current of Rush Creek.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• On an easy half-mile walk, visitors can watch and discuss ducks, geese, grebes and songbirds.
  — Anita Gosch, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
• South Shore: Reports included an eared grebe and a king eider in Hull.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• Perhaps 1 million years ago or more, a male grebe needed bright colors and tricky moves.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• Spotted salamanders breed here and night herons roost, alongside coots and grebes.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 May 2020
• A pair of grebes who didn’t love each other might be less willing to cooperate.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 16 June 2011
• Some of these visitors will include green-winged teal, the colorful wood duck, Western and Clark’s grebes, some species of sandpiper and loons.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• In the Andes Mountains in South America, water birds called hooded grebes have bright red eyes.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• On Plum Island, there were 16 Northern shovelers, eight red-grebes, two rough-legged hawks, and a yellow-breasted chat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Spring and summer are peak nesting season for Western and Clark’s grebes, and Lake Hodges has become a major nursery for the large water birds.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
• That’s concerning because while a lot of birds depend on the lake’s brine shrimp to survive — including 5 million eared grebe — a lot more flocks rely on the flies.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• In Britain, the great crested grebe was driven to near extinction, hunted for its head feathers, which stand out like a halo when breeding.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• Back at the harbor, another small waterbird — an eared grebe — was released alongside the ruddy duck Wednesday.
  — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Not much is known about the hooded grebe, Podiceps gallardoi, as these aquatic birds were discovered only 43 years ago in the frigid waters of Patagonia.
  — Amy Klinkhammer, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2017
• The 564-acre marsh adjacent to Turnagain Arm is a magnet for birders, who may encounter trumpeter swans, tundra swans, red-necked grebes, northern pintails, arctic terns and other species amid the marsh's sedges.
  — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
• Not only can birders spot ducks, geese, grebes and coots; a number of warblers, sparrows, woodpeckers, birds of prey including bald eagles, golden eagles and ospreys, and much more also move through the area.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2017
• But two lucky birds, a ruddy duck and an eared grebe, were released Wednesday after going through rehabilitation at the edge of Huntington Harbour.
  — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Disgust at their grisly trade, which was eradicating millions of birds a year to meet Americans’ demand for feathery swank, surged in her like a ball of regurgitated feathers and crustaceans from a grebe’s crop.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Birders will appreciate the flocks of waterfowl, migrating shorebirds, mallards, grebes, swallows and more.
  — Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2020
• The separation of penguins, pelicans and ibis from flamingos and grebes (and pigeons) implies that the waterbird trait evolved independently multiple times.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2015
• From coolly majestic lionesses to frantically racing grebes, from a Serengeti sunset to an otherworldly penguin procession, this exhibition is sure to leave viewers awestruck at the wide world around them.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024