Great Crested Grebes

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Great Crested Grebes perform their amazing 'penguin dance' this month.  It's actually a courtship display which starts with a lot of head shaking and fluffing out their head crest feathers.

It culminates with both birds rising up on the water, paddling like crazy, and presenting each other with a piece of pond weed.  In this upright position the birds resemble a pair of penguins, hence the name.

More info at: UK Safari Great Crested grebes Fact File