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Note: During all years of the Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas drought conditions persisted and the Atlas range maps for all waterfowl, waterbirds, and wetland-associated species should be viewed as characteristic of distribution and abundance during dry conditions. Read the full drought statement here.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Gregarious and highly colonial, the Eared Grebe is the most common grebe in the world. It nests in large, dense, and noisy colonies on larger bodies of water, quite unlike the similar Horned Grebe which occurs as 1 or a few pairs scattered about on smaller ponds. Unlike the Horned Grebe, which supplements its diet with small fish, the Eared Grebe feeds almost exclusively on aquatic insects and small crustaceans such as brine shrimp. In Canada, it breeds from the British Columbia interior east to western Manitoba. It winters along the Pacific Coast from southern British Columbia to the Gulf of California, and from the southwestern US through Mexico.
Typical Eared Grebe breeding habitats in Saskatchewan include shallow saline lakes, permanent and semi-permanent sloughs, and marshy freshwater areas with emergent vegetation.
The Eared Grebe is a locally common summer resident of the larger marshes and sloughs of the prairies and aspen parkland. In the southern boreal forest, it is an uncommon and local breeder north to Kazan Lake, Big River, and Neely Lake, while in the northern boreal forest, it is a spring vagrant at Wellington, Cluff, and Wintego Lakes (Smith 1996).
Original text by Robert Warnock. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Eared Grebe in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Eared Grebe in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=EAGR&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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