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BIRDS THAT DIVE

DIVING BIRDS - Loons, cormorants, scoters, mergansers, eiders
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Pie-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps stays in the same stretch of water during summer and winter. Pie Billed grebe, Messalonskee Lake, Maine, spring. Grebes are migratory in Maine because they need open, fairly shallow water for feeding. They are a diving bird.
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Pie-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps stays in the same stretch of water during summer and winter. Pie Billed grebe, Messalonskee Lake, Maine, spring. Grebes are migratory in Maine because they need open, fairly shallow water for feeding. They are a diving bird.

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  • Double Crested Cormorants fighting over huge fish, possibly and eel. I saw a tremendous amount of flapping on the water and saw these two Shags fighting over this enormous fish. Sam Day Hill Road, Phippsburg, Maine, March 2013
  • Double Crested Cormorants fighting over huge fish, possibly and eel. I saw a tremendous amount of flapping on the water and saw these two Shags fighting over this enormous fish. Sam Day Hill Road, Phippsburg, Maine, March 2013
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  • Pie-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps stays in the same stretch of water during summer and winter. Pie Billed grebe, Messalonskee Lake, Maine, spring. Grebes are migratory in Maine because they need open, fairly shallow water for feeding. They are a diving bird.
  • Pie-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps stays in the same stretch of water during summer and winter. They are therefore, relatively sedentary. This is a breeding pair.. Grebes are migratory in Maine because they need open, fairly shallow water for feeding. They are a diving bird.
  • Pie-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps stays in the same stretch of water during summer and winter. They are therefore, relatively sedentary. This is a breeding pair.. Grebes are migratory in Maine because they need open, fairly shallow water for feeding. They are a diving bird.
  • Double Crested cormorant, also called a Shag, close up head shot
  • Double Crested Cormorants are migratory diving birds in Maine. They are sea birds that eat fish. Ths one is perched on a navigational marker light. It has its crests up making it clear why they are called Double Crested Cormorants.
  • Royal Tern, Sterna maxima in flight, Sanibel Island, Key West Florida, March 2013
  • Royal Tern flock on South Florida on Sanibel Island. Maine does occaissionally host Royal Terns. They have been reported in Sagadahoc County on Seawall and Popham Beach in Phippsburg.
  • Hooded Mergansers, hen and drake with Common Goldeneyes, hen and drake, Phippsburg Maine winter birds
  • Hooded Mergansers, hen and drake with Common Goldeneyes, hen and drake, Phippsburg Maine winter birds
  • Hooded Mergansers, hen and drake with Common Goldeneyes, hen and drake, Phippsburg Maine winter birds
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  • Hooded Mergansers, drake and hen with a Common Merganser hen on Dromore Bay, Phippsburg, Maine winter diving birds. Mergansers are winter birds on the coast. They migrate to Canada and far northern Maine to nest in the summer. This is the first time I've ever seen both species of "Sawbills" together in Phippsburg. February 19, 2013
  • Hooded Mergansers, drake and hen with a Common Merganser hen on Dromore Bay, Phippsburg, Maine winter diving birds. Mergansers are winter birds on the coast. They migrate to Canada and far northern Maine to nest in the summer. This is the first time I've ever seen both species of "Sawbills" together in Phippsburg. February 19, 2013
  • Hooded Mergansers, drake and hen with a Common Merganser hen on Dromore Bay, Phippsburg, Maine winter diving birds. Mergansers are winter birds on the coast. They migrate to Canada and far northern Maine to nest in the summer. This is the first time I've ever seen both species of "Sawbills" together in Phippsburg. February 19, 2013
  • Hooded Mergansers, drake and hen with a Common Merganser hen on Dromore Bay, Phippsburg, Maine winter diving birds. Mergansers are winter birds on the coast. They migrate to Canada and far northern Maine to nest in the summer. This is the first time I've ever seen both species of "Sawbills" together in Phippsburg. February 19, 2013
  • Red Breasted Mergansers, also called Sawbills, a flock with drakes engaged in courting behaviors, neck pumping. One hen on the left with drake neck pumping near her, Phippsburg, Maine
  • Red Breasted Merganser, also called a Sawbill, drake eating crab, Totman Cove, Phippsburg, Maine Small Point Harbor, a winter diving bird
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