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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little grebe paddled with surprising speed through the water.
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Among those first to die were cormorants and black-necked grebes.
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He had an interested audience of mallard, water-hen and the solitary grebe .
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Moorhens, mallards, grebes and a heron work the murky water for their evening meals.
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On deeper water teal, mallard and great crested grebes bobbed and coots squawked and chased each other noisily.
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Red-heads dive constantly like grebes, but have conspicuously whiter cheeks, and are also much whiter than other small diving ducks.
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Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.
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We heard the growling call-note of great crested grebes.