Clark's Grebe
Aechmophorus clarkii · Grebes
Banding codeCLGR
Keys to identifying it
1Size & shape
About 25 in long.
2Color pattern
- White face surrounds the red eye
- Bright orange-yellow bill
- Paler flanks than its look-alike
3Habitat & season
Large lakes and reservoirs, Great Salt Lake marshes
In northern Utah: summer.
Seen most often in March, April, May, June, July, August and October.
Share of the region’s research-grade iNaturalist bird observations each month, scaled to this bird’s peak. Highlighted bars are its peak months.
4Voice
A single, rising, grating call.
“krreeeek”
Warbly has no recording of this bird.
Know it
- Was considered the same species as the Western Grebe until 1985.
- White surrounds its eye, and its bill is a brighter orange-yellow.
- Gives a single rising call; its look-alike gives a two-part call.
- Pairs perform the same water-running courtship dance as Western Grebes.
Often confused with
Western Grebe- Western × Clark's Grebe
- Horned Grebe
From iNaturalist identification data for northern Utah.
From Wikipedia
Clark's grebe is a North American waterbird species in the grebe family. Until the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale morph of the western grebe, which it resembles in size, range, and behavior. Intermediates between the two species are known.
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