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    (c) Paul Cools, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Magnus Lindberg - Close to nature, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Erik Eckstein, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Paul Cools, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Kyle Blaney, all rights reserved

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Horned Grebe

Podiceps auritus

IUCN Red List status: Vulnerable

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About

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...

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