Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds


Horned Grebe

http://www.wisconsinbirds.org/plan/species/hogr.htm

Scientific:
Podiceps auritus

Order:
Podicipediformes
Family:
Podicipedidae
Genus:
Podicpes

Danish: Nordisk lappedykker

Greenlandic: No translation found

Length: 12.2-15.0 in (31-38 cm)

Weight: 10.6-20.1 oz (300-570 g)

Wingspan: 21.6-25.2 in (55-64 cm)

Fun Fact: The Horned Grebe regularly eats some of its own feathers, enough that its stomach usually contains a matted plug of them. This plug may function as a filter or may hold fish bones in the stomach until they can be digested.

 

Karl-Birger Strann, XC401780. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401780.


References:

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018).   Podiceps azurites. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=018B316959E84738

Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.

Stedman, Stephen J. 2000. Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

 

 

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