num_pages: 266
description: Grebes are unusual and fascinating birds with spectacular courtship behavior and floating nests which enable them to spend their entire lives in water. In Grebes  Fjeldsa provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of their origin and evolution biology and how they have adapted to exploit their environment beautifally illustrated with maps line figures and his own stunning full-color paintings.
language: English
title: Grebes: Podicipedidae
publisher: Oxford University Press