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About
Great Crested Grebe
The Great Crested Grebe has a long slim neck waterbird that has a flat head, crimson eyes, a pinkish bill, and green legs.
Builds a nest of rotting vegetation at the edge of the water, sometimes if floats. They have 3-6 white eggs, that both parents take care of for 25-31 days. Sometimes they will raise 2 families a year.
This bird is a expert diver that takes most of its food underwater, /they are smooth beneath the water and can chase fish with powerful strokes of their webbed feet. It needs a long take off surface. walking its feet over the water and taking to the air with fast, labored wingbeats. Once it is in the air the feet trail behind and the neck is low giving it a hump-back appearance.
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What is this animal's name?
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Great Crested Grebe |
What class is this animal assigned to?
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Aves |
What does this animal eat?
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Small fish, aquatic insects and their larvae, crawfish, shrimp, crustaceans, snails and amphibians. Feeds insects and spiders to young. |
| Where did this animal live? |
Northern Europe to China |
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