F/7.1, 1/200, ISO 400.
Pied-Billed Grebe
Did you hear about the big zombie party?
It was DEAD & full of STIFFS!
Interesting Fact: Like other grebes, the Pied-billed Grebe eats large quantities of its own feathers. Feathers may at times fill up more than half of a grebe’s stomach, and they are sometimes fed to newly hatched chicks. The ingested plumage appears to form a sieve-like plug that prevents hard, potentially harmful prey parts from passing into the intestine, and it helps form indigestible items into pellets which they can regurgitate. ( https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pied-billed_Grebe )
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Wild animals are so fascinating. We are animals too of course, but since we have forgotten this, we are so much more messed up.
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I’m in awe of how nature works!
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When the merlin app identified these birds out on my lake it mentioned nothing about eating feathers. Seems quite odd, but then I suppose it serves a necessary function.
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So the feathers in the stomach keep certain things from going down.
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Very nice photo! and pssst…it should say barely treading in your title.
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My favourite typo: “I went to a Halloween party with a couple of old fiends (friends)”
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