Adults have a black back and face; White neck and underside; Long neck; Long, thin bill. Juveniles are similar to adults.

References cited in Species Profile

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. Western Grebe. All About Birds.
• Idaho Museum of Natural History. 1997. Atlas of Idaho's Wildlife. http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/atlswf.pdf
• LaPorte, Nicholas, R. W. Storer and G. L. Nuechterlein. 2013. Western Grebe (Aechmophorusoccidentalis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/026a