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Name: Jeff C.
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Date: 2000-2001
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Do grebes mate for life ?

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The Birder's Handbook says "mating is believed to be monogamous" for pied-billed, horned and eared grebes. However, that does not mean that if something happens to one mate that the other will not mate again, or that an occaisional interloper will never disrupt a mated pair.

J. Elliott

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