Great Crested Grebe – chick

Order Podicipediformes; Family Podicipedidae (grebes); Scientific name: Podiceps cristatus; Common name: Great Crested Grebe – a chick - Distribution in Australia: Sporadically occurring in all states and territories, consistently in South-west of Western Australia, Victoria, eastern New South Wales, south-eastern Queensland, south-eastern South Australia and Tasmania, absent in arid and semiarid habitats; Distribution outside Australia: widespread in temperate parts of Eurasia and southern Africa, uncommon in New Zealand.