Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda (B), Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador (NB), El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).
Vagrant to France, Grenada, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom.
Population
Estimated population is 110,000 - 130,000 (2010).
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) [XC103479]
by Andrew Spencer from Burke County prairie potholes, North Dakota, United States (call)
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) [XC318376]
by Martin St-Michel from San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, Los Banos, Merced County, California, United States (call, song)
Nest
A heap of decaying plant material, lying in shallow water or afloat among growing waterplants.
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas). May also have hybridized with Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
podiceps (Linnaeus, 1758) - Southern and central Canada south to Panama. Winters southern USA, central America, West Indies.
antillarum Bangs, 1913 - Greater and Lesser Antilles.
antarcticus (Lesson, PA, 1842) - Southern America, from eastern Panama south to south-central Chile and south-central Argentina.