I remember years ago, leading a group of high school students on a canoeing expedition down the Zumbro River below Silver Lake. As I looked ahead, I could see a small bird floating in the water ...

Claim to fame: Pied-billed grebes are among the more secretive residents of Missouri’s wetland areas, which makes sightings of these small, duck-like birds a special occurrence for birders and nature ...

While pied-billed grebes are sometimes confused with loons or ducks in appearance and share some characteristics, this species of waterfowl are in a class of their own. Like many birds, pied-billed ...

As the calendar moves into the months of October and November, migrating waterfowl will replace the exodus of songbirds that evacuate the North American continent every fall in prepa-ration for their ...