The birds of the British Isles and their eggs (1920) (14563324277)

Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 307 Order PODICIPIDIFORMES. Family PODICIPID^. Grebes. Slender diving birds ; bill straight ; legs posterior, no visibletail; toes lobed ; tarsi flat, capable of rotation. Great Crested Grebe. Podiceps cristatus (Linn.). Few once persecuted birds have made more rapid recoverythan the Great Crested Grebe (Plate 132) ; it was at one timeslaughtered for its satin breast—grebe-fur—and was almostexterminated, but it has not merely greatly increased in its oldhaunts, but has extended its range, and now nests in allsuitable localities in England and Wales, and in many parts ofScotland and Ireland. It occurs throughout southern andcentral Europe and central Asia, and in winter in northernAfrica. Nowhere is the bird more common than on theCheshire and Shropshire meres, though the Broads are usuallysaid to be its great stronghold. Cheshire is not a recentlycolonised area, but an ancient centre of distribution. In autumnthere is a movement of migrants along our coasts, a