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 LC    Great Grebe* Id (Atlas):
    Podiceps major

Description (10)
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Family
Podicipedidae (Grebes)

Size
70 - 78 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Larger freshwater lakes. Also, coastal inland water. From sea-level - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Uruguay (B).

Vagrant to Spain.

Population
Estimated population is 36,000 - 130,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)...)

 
Great Grebe (Podiceps major) [XC686951]
     by Cristian Pinto Fernandez from Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil (alarm call)

 
Great Grebe (Podiceps major) [XC450074]
     by Peter Boesman from Laguna de Santa Elena, Quill\u00f3n, Chile (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies navasi not universally accepted; if valid, name leucopterus may be applicable. Birds from coastal Peru suspected to constitute additional, undescribed subspecies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • major (Boddaert, 1783)   -  North-western Peru; Paraguay and extreme south-eastern Brazil south to Patagonia and central Chile.
  • navasi Manghi, 1984   -  Southern Chile.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Great Grebe (Podiceps major) - 10 files


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