Australasian Crested Grebe

Australasian Crested Grebe

Lake Forsyth - Canterbury

Crested Grebe and chick

On the lookout for more fish to arrive...

Male Grebe and chick

Canterbury

Male Crested Grebe with chick

North Canterbury

Crested Grebe - female

Almost too big for free riding.

Crested Grebe

Grebe chick antics!

Crested Grebe - male

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

Crested Grebe and chick

Canterbury

Crested Grebe - male

Foggy morning on the Lake

Female Crested Grebe with its tuckered out Grebe chick

Eaten too many fish......

Crested Grebes

Grebe chick testing the limits of a free ride.

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.

Crested Grebes

A chick being fed a tiny fish, Christchurch

Male Grebe with a tiny fish for the ever hungry grebe chicks

Crested Grebe - Christchurch

Delivering a tiny fish to it's new chicks.

Male Grebe and chick

Nth Canterbury

Crested Grebe

Christchurch

Crested Grebes

Female Grebe with a cheeky chick

Nth Canterbury

Grebe chick being fed an eel

Daddy Grebe feeding a tiny fish to the chicks on their mumma's back

Chicks 1 week old

Male Grebe with chick

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

Crested Grebe family

Grebe with chicks

Christchurch NZ

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.

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.

Grebe eating a Rudd

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

Male Grebe and 2 chicks

Chicks greeting each other, now 2 week old!

Australasian Crested Grebe

Male Grebe with 2 of it's 4 chicks now 2 weeks old Christchurch NZ

Australasian Crested Grebe

Male Grebe and 2 chicks that are 2 weeks old

Crested Grebe Juvenile - 2 to 3 months old

There's another small sibling chick under those feathers from a new brood. The juveniles sometimes do the babysitting while both parents are out diving for fish.

Crested Grebe juvenile with a sibling chick.

Crested Grebe Juvenile

The Juvenile has a young sibling chick hidden under its feathers. Canterbury

Crested Grebes

Juvenile Grebes doing babysitting duties.... helping to feed young siblings from a new brood only 2 to 3 months after being hatched themselves. Exhibiting adult like skills so soon was incredible behaviour to watch.

Juvenile Grebe and chick chilling out

Crested Grebe Chick

A little fluff ball just chilling out on the lake.

Grebe Chick

Grebe Chick

Young chick taking a nap, but still keeping an eye out for any potential threats on the lake, while it's parents are away diving for fish.

Juvenile Grebe

Having a wing flap after some preening.

Juvenile Grebe