Summary: <p>This week we look at three strange birds: a red-tailed Canadian raven that may or may not exist, the pied-billed grebe that definitely does, and New Zealand’s takahē.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-93" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/raven-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>A common raven. No red markings.</p> <p>Here’s the <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/cryptodominion/preybirds.html">Cryptodominion page</a> with the red-tailed raven report.</p> <p>Here’s <a href="http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2017/01/are-giant-flightless-ravens-something.html">Karl Shuker’s post</a> about the red-tailed raven.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-94" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/piedbilledgrebes-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>Precious smol baby pied-billed grebes riding on their mom or dad’s back.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-95" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Takahe-zealandia-300x150.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="150"></p> <p>The takahē, hooray!</p>
