#0740 · 🐦 birds

Horned Grebe

🇳🇱 Kuifduiker ·Podiceps auritus

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Magnus Lindberg - Close to nature · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © petr_hajduk · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ann Gordon · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Andrew Hrycyna · CC BY 4.0
9. © Suzanne Labbé · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Alexander Viduetsky · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe ( Podiceps auritus ) is a relatively small waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are two known subspecies; ( P. a. auritus ), which breeds in Eurasia, and ( P. a. cornutus ), which breeds in North America. In Eurasia, the subspecies is distributed over most of northern Europe and Asia, breeding from Greenland to western China. The North American subspecies spans most of Canada and some of the United States. Both subspecies appear physically similar...

base stats

NL sightings 70iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 34,558iNaturalist observations
weight 449.5 gadult, up to
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).