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Horned Grebe

 

Familiar to most North American birders in its black-and-white winter plumage, the Horned Grebe is more striking in its red-and-black breeding feathers. Its "horns" are yellowish patches of feathers behind its eyes that it can raise and lower at will.

 

Photo courtesy of Steve Nanz 2025
Text courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2025