How to Use grebe in a Sentence

grebe

noun

• This includes grebes, an aquatic diving bird.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• When fish are stuck in the canal, predators like grebes and cormorants can more easily snatch them.
  — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
• Spotted salamanders breed here and night herons roost, alongside coots and grebes.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 May 2020
• On an easy half-mile walk, visitors can watch and discuss ducks, geese, grebes and songbirds.
  — Anita Gosch, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
• About then a small group of eared grebes came floating by in the slow current of Rush Creek.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps 1 million years ago or more, a male grebe needed bright colors and tricky moves.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• But the Bill Brigade could not wrap their heads around declaring that ducks, grebes or flamingos have beaks.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
• Bernstein said 26 species of endangered wildlife in the area, such as grebes, a freshwater bird, can be saved.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
• Officials are caring for a common loon and a western grebe that were recovered with oil on their bodies.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Edwin Liu had been observing this grebe family for a while before taking this picture.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Constitution Gardens draws more birds and thus more birders, there to see such species as northern shovelers, gadwalls and grebes.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Back at the harbor, another small waterbird — an eared grebe — was released alongside the ruddy duck Wednesday.
  — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• That’s concerning because while a lot of birds depend on the lake’s brine shrimp to survive — including 5 million eared grebe — a lot more flocks rely on the flies.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• One scientist found that grebes take up to 20 steps per second, whereas the average Olympic sprinter takes about five steps per second.
  — James Factora, Them, 24 July 2024
• In the Andes Mountains in South America, water birds called hooded grebes have bright red eyes.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• On Plum Island, there were 16 Northern shovelers, eight red-grebes, two rough-legged hawks, and a yellow-breasted chat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Birders will appreciate the flocks of waterfowl, migrating shorebirds, mallards, grebes, swallows and more.
  — Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2020
• Spring and summer are peak nesting season for Western and Clark’s grebes, and Lake Hodges has become a major nursery for the large water birds.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
• Scientists have studied the basilisk lizard and other water-traversing creatures, like the Western grebe, for decades, as Sharp outlines in her article.
  — James Factora, Them, 24 July 2024
• Not only can birders spot ducks, geese, grebes and coots; a number of warblers, sparrows, woodpeckers, birds of prey including bald eagles, golden eagles and ospreys, and much more also move through the area.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2017
• From Ventura to Santa Barbara, gulls, pelicans, murres, and grebes staggered along beaches, unable to fly.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
• Krisztina spent years studying and photographing the rushing grebes and guides her clients at Lake Hodges to experience this amazing behavior and capture their own photos.
  — Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
• Not much is known about the hooded grebe, Podiceps gallardoi, as these aquatic birds were discovered only 43 years ago in the frigid waters of Patagonia.
  — Amy Klinkhammer, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2017
• The separation of penguins, pelicans and ibis from flamingos and grebes (and pigeons) implies that the waterbird trait evolved independently multiple times.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2015
• But two lucky birds, a ruddy duck and an eared grebe, were released Wednesday after going through rehabilitation at the edge of Huntington Harbour.
  — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• From coolly majestic lionesses to frantically racing grebes, from a Serengeti sunset to an otherworldly penguin procession, this exhibition is sure to leave viewers awestruck at the wide world around them.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017