Life at the Annapolis Royal Marsh: Little bird, big sound

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Little bird, big sound

I mentioned I had been hearing the pied-billed grebes for a while, but hadn't seen one. On Sunday I got my first sighting, and as luck would have it, was able to get a shot of it while it was making its distinctive throaty call. It seemed as though the sound was made in its throat - in this shot, you can see the throat is distended - but apparently the beak does open as well, as I saw when I viewed this YouTube video of a grebe in full voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVPAXlH7vHw

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