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Western Grebe. This is the most amazing underwater swimming bird that I have ever seen. I have observed cormorants for many years, and was always impressed by how far they could swim under water. From my observations, they can not swim at all compared to a Western Grebe. The first time that I watched a Western Grebe dive, I waited for what seemed like an eternity waiting for it to surface. When I finally spotted it, it was so far away from where it dived, it seemed impossible that it could swim that far underwater. I took this photo of a Western Grebe at Silverbell lake in west Tucson Arizona USA.

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Uploaded on January 19, 2021
Taken on December 11, 2016