{"id":395,"date":"2006-01-31T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/01\/31\/pied-billed-grebe-in-winter\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T22:38:10","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/01\/31\/pied-billed-grebe-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the winter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/programs\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Pied-billed_Grebe_dtl.html\">Pied-billed Grebes (Podilymbus podiceps)<\/a> are in their duller, non-breeding plumage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/January\/Podilymbus-podiceps.jpg\" alt=\"Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) in non-breeding or winter plumage\" title=\"Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) in non-breeding or winter plumage\" width=\"480\" height=\"372\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These aquatic birds can be identified by their small size, white-ringed eyes, and broad, usually black-ringed bills. When they are in their non-breeding plumage, their black bill rings may become very faint and difficult to see.<\/p>\n<p>Pied-billed Grebes are solitary and don&#8217;t travel in large flocks. They rarely fly and will instead usually escape by diving under water and swimming away. Pied-billed Grebes prefer fresh water, and I observed this one at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/08\/23\/the-sweetwater-wetlands\/\">Sweetwater Wetlands<\/a> here in Tucson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the winter, Pied-billed Grebes (Podilymbus podiceps) are in their duller, non-breeding plumage. These aquatic birds can be identified by their small size, white-ringed eyes, and broad, usually black-ringed bills. When they are in their non-breeding plumage, their black bill rings may become very faint and difficult to see. Pied-billed Grebes are solitary and don&#8217;t&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/01\/31\/pied-billed-grebe-in-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}