Late one night last December, it began snowing eared grebes in Cedar City, Utah. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Other birds, such as the American coot (Fulica Americana), the pied - billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), and the belted kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon), showed up in more northerly locations than ornithologists expect in a normal year. (sciencemag.org)
River otters, a locally threatened species, have moved in, as has a threatened species of birds known as grebes. (sciencenews.org)