The Little Grebe Rituals

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The little grebe is aptly named--for it 's the smallest bird of the grebe family. Grebes are fantastic birds and superb parents. Their mating habits furnish humans with extreme delight as we watch their actions of giving gifts, copying each other 's extreme movements and performing a running dance on water. I found a video portraying this ritual though the grebes shown are not Little Grebes, but hopefully an understanding may be formed of the Little Grebe rituals. All birds in the grebe family are so loving and giving to their little chicks. They allow the little ones to ride on their backs, and are industrious fisher birds bringing their chicks food regularly. Grebes pluck their own feathers out to feed to their babies, and it 's thought