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 LC    Pied-billed Grebe* Id (Atlas):
    Podilymbus podiceps

Description (10)
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Family
Podicipedidae (Grebes)

Size
30 - 38 cm
Wingspan: 58 - 62 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Freshwater lakes. From sea-level - 3,100 m.

Range (Guide)
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).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Fish, insects and other aquatic animals.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (158)...)

 
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) [XC452187]
     by from Pe\u00f1a Blanca Lake, Arizona, United States (call)

 
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) [XC384474]
     by Paul Marvin from Baie-du-Febvre, Nicolet-Yamaska, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada (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.



References
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Files:
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