Australasian Crested Grebe - Kathy Reid

Australasian Crested Grebe

The Australasian Crested Grebe is one of my favourite Water Birds

Australasian Crested Grebe
Lake Forsyth - Canterbury
Female Crested Grebe and chicks
Female Grebe with 4 chicks riding safely on its back , 1 of them is hiding under the feathers. These chicks are 1 week old.
Male Grebe and chick
On the lookout for more fish.....
Male Crested Grebe with chick
Waikuku Lagoon
Male Grebe and chick
Wiakuku Lagoon, Canterbury
Female Crested Grebe and tuckered out Grebe chick
Eaten too many fish......
Female Crested Grebe and chicks
Female Grebe with sleepy chicks riding on its back waiting for their next fish!
Male Crested Grebe and chick
Waikuku Lagoon
Daddy Grebe feeding a tiny fish to the chicks on their mumma's back
Chicks 1 week old
Male Grebe with a tiny fish for the ever hungry grebe chicks
Crested Grebe chick
This fluff ball is taking time out to have a nap. The chicks are 4 weeks old and have started diving for themselves at times.
Australasian Crested Grebe Chick
This cute little grebe chick is 2 weeks old
Male Grebe with chick
Oh....another fish coming, about time!
Male Grebe and chick
Waikuku Lagoon
Female Grebe with a cheeky chick
Waikuku Lagoon
Grebe chick being fed an eel
Grebe chick being fed an eel
Grebe eating a Rudd
This adult caught this fish for its young but it was too large for them to eat.
Australasian Crested Grebe
Lake Forsyth - Canterbury
Crested Grebe Chicks
Chick bonding or should I say chick pecking, the chick on the right came up and tried to peck feathers from it's siblings back! As for eating feathers one suggestion is the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
Australasian Crested Grebe
Male Grebe with 2 of it's 4 chicks now 2 weeks old Christchurch NZ
Male Grebe and 2 chicks
Chicks greeting each other, now 2 week old!
Australasian Crested Grebe
Male Grebe and 2 chicks that are 2 weeks old
Female Grebe feeding chicks with a tiny fish
Lake Roto Kohatu - Christchurch
Female Grebe fluffing its wings also has a tiny fish for the chicks
Lake Roto Kohatu Christchurch
Australasian Crested Grebe
Male with 3 chicks, that are 2 weeks old
Crested Grebe
Female Crested Grebe, with a rudd fish for it's young.
Crested Grebe with small fish
Female Crested Grebe attempting to feed a rudd to 4-week old chick. It turned out it was too large, the female then had the luxury of devouring it!
Female Grebe wth rudd fish and chick
Female Crested Grebe attempting to feed a rudd to 4-week old chick.
Grebe chick with fish
"I don't think so babe, but nice try"
Female Crested Grebe with chicks riding on her back
Lake Roto Kohatu - Christchurch
Female Crested Grebe with chick
Waikuku Lagoon
Female Crested Grebe and chick
Canterbury
Adult Grebe with a fish
Male adult Grebe feeding a feather to a chick.
One suggestion is the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
Grebe Chick
Lake Forsyth - Canterbury
Crested Grebe
Grebe having a bad hair day!
Grebe selecting a feather to feed chick
One suggestion is the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
Crested Grebe
Roto Kohatu Lakes, Christchurch
Australasian Crested Grebe
Lake Forsyth - Canterbury