Western grebe

Review bycanaryswear· 2026-11-04

It is also rare. Likewise, it comes when the various [water] birds come. Its head is quite small, black, with a pointed, chili-red bill. Its eyes are like fire. It is long-necked. Its body is small and straight, small and thick: its breast very white, its back black, its flight feathers white, its wing-bend tips black, its legs black: they are also somewhat toward its rump, like a duck’s legs. It lives there in the lagoon and is caught in nets. This western grebe does not fly very high; sometimes the water folk only chase it in boats; they spear it. And when they chase it, when they harass it exceedingly, when they are about to spear it, then it ruffles up, cries out, summons the wind. The lagoon foams much, it breaks into waves. So before the eyes of the water folk it vanishes, it suddenly enters the depths of the water. Occasionally they hit their mark; [the bird] is successfully speared. Also it brings forth no young [here]; it also migrates.