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 LC    Least Grebe* Id (Atlas):
    Tachybaptus dominicus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Least Grebe, American Dabchick, Least Dabchick

Family
Podicipedidae (Grebes)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Inland wetlands, including marshes, swamps, larger freshwater lakes. From sea-level - 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (NB), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Dominica.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 14,000 - 140,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

 
Least Grebe (Tachybaptus) [XC800134]
     by Manuel Grosselet from San Pablo Etla, San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico (call)

 
Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) [XC173060]
     by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Bambu\u00ed, Minas Gerais, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies brachyrhynchus synonymous with speciosus. Birds from western Ecuador sometimes placed in separate subspecies eisenmanni.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Northern Caribbean, from Cozumel I (off south-eastern Mexico) to Virgin Is and north to Bahamas.
  • brachypterus (Chapman, 1899)   -  West-central Mexico and southern Texas south to Panama.
  • bangsi (van Rossem & Hachisuka, 1937)   -  Southern Baja California.
  • speciosus (Lynch Arribálzaga, 1877)   -  Southern America, south to northern Argentina and southern Brazil.
  • brachyrhynchus (Chapman, 1899)   -  Tropical northern South America to southern Brazil and northern Argentina.
  • eisenmanni Storer & Getty, 1985   -  Coast of Ecuador; populations of north-western Peru presumably also this subspecies.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) - 10 files


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