Red-necked Grebe at Nest
by Barry Kent MacKay
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24.000 x 18.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Red-necked Grebe at Nest
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Oil On Birch Panel
Description
The Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) is found in North America, and in parts of Europe and Asia. I have shown the slightly larger of the two subspecies, which is the one found in North America and named after Carl Peter Holbøll (1795 – 1856), a Danish navy officer and naturalist who collected flora and fauna in Greenland, and died tragically when the brig, Baldur, sailing from Denmark to Greenland, went down with no survivors. This explains why, in older books on North American birds, you may see the species called “Holboell’s Grebe”. They nest in western North America, from Alaska east across Canada to central Quebec, and south into some of the northern United States, but that range is variable, and they now nest yearly in the lower Great Lakes. In the Toronto region the often nest on floating platforms put there for that purpose. Most of the North American population spends the winter in the calmer, unfrozen coastal waters of both east and west coasts, or on very large lakes and rivers. The painting is in oils, on a Russian birch panel backed by a basswood border, and is 18 X 24 inches, showing the birds approximately life size. I’ve shown the eggs hatching, one chick already out. Usually there are four or five eggs but clutch sizes can range from one to nine, and the nest us usually a floating mass of interwoven vegetation (I enjoy watching how the female arranges, and rearranges, and then takes another poke at a reed or leaf she has decided is still not quite as it should be) anchored to emergent vegetation.
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March 22nd, 2021
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