Great Crested Grebe Gallery

Courtship plumage of birds (sexual dimorphism), Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Colorful courtship plumage of various birds (sexual dimorphism): 1) Horned bell bird (Chasmorhynchus carunculatus); 2) Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica); 3) Pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura); 4) Eurasian teal (Anas crecca); 5) Ruff (Philomachus pugnax); 6) Greater painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis, female); 7) Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido, male); 8) Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella); 9) Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus); 10) Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii with inflated throat bag). a = Courtship plumage of the male, b = ordinary plumage of the male. Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Red-necked grebe (female), Podiceps grisegena

Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Bird, Copperplate, Edwarddonovan, Engraving, Female, Handcolored, Historical, History, Illustration, Naturalhistoryofbritishbirds, Neckedgrebe, Ornithology, Podicepsgrisegena, Red

Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps Cristatus) (hand-coloured litho)

1773120 Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps Cristatus) (hand-coloured litho) by Gould, John (1804-81) (after); Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Illustration from The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, printed in London, 1862-73.
Most plates engraved by H. Richter.); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; English, out of copyright

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