Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

Publication Type:

Web Article

Authors:

Muller, Martin J.; Storer, Robert W.

Source:

Birds of North America Online, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Issue 410, Ithaca (1999)

Call Number:

W99MUL01IDUS

URL:

http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/410/

Keywords:

pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, SWAP

Abstract:

The pied-billed grebe has the widest distribution in the Americas of any grebe, breeding from northern Canada through the West Indies and Central America to southern South America. It is a common resident of freshwater marshes, lakes, and sluggish rivers, and, in winter, brackish estuaries. Secretive, it usually nests in emergent vegetation. Seldom seen in flight, it migrates at night, landing before or at dawn on the nearest body of water. Most study papers about the pied-billed grebe are from temperate North America and are either anecdotal or deal with a single aspect of its life history. Information on breeding biology is available, as well as about eggs, incubation, and food allocation to chicks in the wild. Incubation and chick development in captivity have been described; grebe parasites have been discussed. Remaining to be discovered are many details about molt, behavior, and development of the young. In addition, population biology over the species’ entire range is in dire need of study.

Notes:

Location: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/410; note is in ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Birds. (See also B99MUL01IDUS, the printed 1999 edition, on Wildlife Bureau Reference Shelves in black-boxed BNA collection.)

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation: Muller MJ, Storer RW. 1999. Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps). The Birds of North America Online. (A Poole, editor). Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. [accessed 2015 Jun 1]. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/410/.

Recommended Citation: Muller, Martin J. and Robert W. Storer. 1999. Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/410 doi:10.2173/bna.410.

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