PIED-BILLED GREBE

 

1364                PIED-BILLED GREBE              Podilymbus podiceps

USA             11

The pied-billed grebe is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas. Other names of this grebe include American dabchick, rail, dabchick, Carolina grebe, devil-diver, dive-dapper, dipper, hell-diver, pied-billed dabchick, pied-bill, thick-billed grebe, and water witch

LITTLE GREBE

 

Photographed in southern outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 1071)               LITTLE GREBE               Tachybaptus ruficollis 

CAMBODIA                43

Found on tanks, lakes and marshes. 25-29 cm. Resident Africa, Madagascar, W Palearctic, C Asia, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, China, Taiwan, N. S Korea, Japan, Java, Bali, Philippines, Wallacea, New Guinea, Soloman Islands, and uncommon to common resident throughout SE Asia.

AUSTRALASIAN LITTLE GREBE

Photographed at Lake Owhareiti, Pakaraka, North Island, New Zealand, April, 2019

(*   30)                  AUSTRALASIAN LITTLE GREBE                     Tachybaptus novaehollandiae       

NEW ZEALAND               122

Found in lakes and ponds, particularly north of Auckland.

AUSTRALIAN CRESTED GREBE

Photographed at Kellands Ponds, South Island, New Zealand, April, 2019

(*  466)                AUSTRALIAN CRESTED GREBE                 Podiceps cristus 

NEW ZEALAND             107

Also known by Maori name Puteketeke. About 600 birds found on open lakes of inland South Island. Usually in pairs but gather on some Canterbury lakes in winter. Rare vagrant to North Island.

LITTLE GREBE

Subspecies albescens, hotographed March 2017

1071               LITTLE GREBE               Tachybaptus ruficollis 

SRI LANKA                 64

Found on tanks, lakes and marshes. 25-29 cm. Rather common breeding resident in lowlands, and rare breeding resident in high hills.

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

Photographed near Bowral, NSW, Grebe in breeding plumage.

466         GREAT CRESTED GREBE                 Podiceps cristatus

Australia            (308)

Found in lakes, larger lagoons and swamps, reservoirs, floodways, bays, inlets. Range around coast of Australia and far inland, most of NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, eastern half Queensland but not Cape York, coast of WA, top of NT, se of SA; also Eurasia, Africa, but not Indonesia and Borneo and PNG. 48-61 cm. 

HOARY-HEADED GREBE

170             HOARY-HEADED GREBE             Poliocephalus poliocephalus

Australia            (170)

29-30 cm. Ranges all over Australia. Found in brackish and saltwater swamps, open lakes and reservoirs, and sheltered bays and inlets

AUSTRALASIAN GREBE

30         AUSTRALASIAN GREBE       Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

Australia   (30)

Also known as Little Grebe. 23-26 cms. Found all over Australia. Frequents shallow fresh water, dams, wetlands, sewage ponds. Dives when startled. Young hide under parents' wing, even when diving.