Australasian Crested Grebe

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

North Canterbury

Male Grebe and chick

Nth Canterbury

Female Crested Grebe with its tuckered out Grebe chick

Eaten too many fish......

Crested Grebe - male

Foggy morning on the Lake

Female Crested Grebe and chicks

Female Grebe with sleepy chicks riding on its back waiting for their next fish!

Male Crested Grebe and chick

Nth Canterbury.

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.

Female Grebe with a cheeky chick

Nth Canterbury

Crested Grebe - male

Emerging from the fog with a fish for it's chicks.

Crested Grebe - female

Almost too big for free riding.

Crested Grebes

Grebe chick testing the limits of a free ride.

Crested Grebe - Christchurch

Delivering a tiny fish to it's new chicks.

Crested Grebes

A chick being fed a tiny fish, Christchurch

Crested Grebe

Christchurch

Crested Grebe

Grebe chick antics!

Male Grebe with chick

Oh....another fish coming, about time!

Male Grebe and chick

Nth Canterbury

Crested Grebes

Grebe chick being fed an eel

Grebe chick being fed an eel

Grebe - female

Christchurch

Grebe and Chick (female)

Christchurch

Crested Grebe family

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.

Grebe eating a Rudd

This adult caught this fish for its young but it was too large for them to eat.

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

Christchurch NZ

Female Grebe fluffing its wings also has a tiny fish for the chicks

Christchurch - NZ

Grebe with chicks

Christchurch NZ

Grebe and chick

Christchurch

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!