Slavonian grebe is the European common name for Podiceps auritis, what North Americans call Horned grebe. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SLAVONIAN.] Reference
The Podiceps taczanowskii population declined drastically with the decline of the frog and fish populations in the Lake. From Wordnik.com. [Central Andean wet puna] Reference
Two species are largely confined to open water habitats of the area's numerous lakes: the nationally endangered southern crested grebe Podiceps sp. and the endemic New Zealand scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae. From Wordnik.com. [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference
Podiceps taczanowskii is found in open freshwater lakes and ponds with submerged vegetation; Cinclodes palliatus has very specific habitat requirements such as mineral-rich bogs, rocky outcrops and slopes below glaciers; and Laterallus tuerosi inhabits Juncus zone fringing marshes. From Wordnik.com. [Central Andean wet puna] Reference
Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus. From Wordnik.com. [Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom] Reference
We shall understand it perhaps a little better after tracing, in a future talk, the history of its relations among the smaller sea-gulls; meantime, in quitting the little dainty creature, I must plead for a daintier Latin name than it has now -- 'Podiceps.'. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
These birds include the Junin grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii), Junin rail (Laterallus tuerosi), black-breated-hillstar (Oreotrochilus melanogaster), dark-winged miner (Geositta saxicolina), white-bellied cinclodes (Cinclodes palliatus), and Junin canastero (Asthenes virgata). From Wordnik.com. [Central Andean wet puna] Reference
Evans cites the Gulf coastline in this ecoregion to be especially important for the black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), great crested grebe (P. cristatus), socotra cormorant (Phalacrocorax nigrogularis), broad-billed sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus) and Saunders 'little tern (Sterna saundersi). From Wordnik.com. [Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert] Reference
The only hospitable area during these times is the Nata Delta, which has a permanent water source and a small resident population of waterbirds including grebes (Podiceps spp.), cormorants (Phalacrocorax spp.), ducks and plovers (Charadrius spp.) with a few flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber, Phoeniconaias minor) and pelicans (Pelecanus spp.). From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian halophytics] Reference
1 The smaller diver (Podilymbus Podiceps), and the larger, probably Podiceps holbœlli, are not peculiar to the Pacific coast. —. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
Podiceps gularis, Gould. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Podiceps cristatus, Lath. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Podiceps cristatus. From Wordnik.com. [Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow] Reference
Podiceps nigricollis. From Wordnik.com. [Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow] Reference
Podiceps grisegena (Boddaert, 1783). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Podiceps. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference
Podiceps poliocephalus?. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Most numerous are waterfowl birds: swans (Cygnus olor, Cygnus cygnus), Grey geese (Anser anser) ducks and pochards (Anas platyrhynchos, A. strepera, A. acuta, A. clypeata, A. querquedula, Aythya ferin, Netta rufina, Aythya fuligula), and other species (Fulica atra, Podiceps, Larus, Sterna, Chlidonias, Gelochelidon, Pelecani formes, Charadriiformes). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh upland] Reference
Wattled and southern crowned cranes (Grus carunculatus, Balearica regulorum), saddle-billed, marabou and open-billed storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, Anastomus lamelligerus), African fish eagles (Haliaeeetus vocifer), black-necked grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia), eastern white and pink-backed pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus, P. rufescens), geese and waders such as avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta), black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus), plovers, sandpipers and teals (Anas spp.) congregate around the pans. From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian halophytics] Reference
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