Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
Pied-billed Grebe, Lago Villarica, Chile, November 2005 - click for larger image The Pied-billed Grebe is distributed throughout most of North and South America from southern Canada to southern Argentina. It is found on shallow, often stagnant water with emergent vegetation or in marshlands. Outside the breeding season it is found on more open water.
Pied-billed Grebe, Lago Villarica, Chile, November 2005 - click for larger image It has a thick, blunt, whitish bill with a dark band. Its breeding plumage (photos 1 and 2) shows a dark throat and face while non-breeding plumage (photo 3) tends to be browner, lacks the dark throat and face and has only a faint band on the bill.

It dives for its food which consists of a wide variety of aquatic insects, crustaceans, crabs, frogs, etc..

Pied-billed Grebe, Taim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image
Pied-billed Grebe, Vichuquén, Chile, January 2007 - click for larger image
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