Species: Aechmophorus clarkii
Clark's Grebe
Species
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Articles:
An article published in the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery in 2021 describes the results of study comparing the effects of season, location, species, and sex on body weight and blood chemistry for free-ranging western and Clark's grebes.
This article was originally published by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as part of its annual report Threatened and Endangered Wildlife in Washington.
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Podicipediformes
Family
Podicipedidae
Genus
Aechmophorus
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Achichilique Pico Naranja - Grèbe à face blanche
Informal Taxonomy
<p>Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds</p>
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae - Aechmophorus - Formerly included in A. OCCIDENTALIS (AOU 1985, 1998).
Ecology and Life History
Migration
<p>false - false - true</p>
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
As in western grebe, diet is fishes and aquatic invertebrates.
Reproduction Comments
Annually lays one clutch of 3-4. Incubation, by both sexes, lasts about 23 days. Young leave nest at hatching, tended by both parents. Colonies include tens to hundreds of nests.
Ecology Comments
Gregarious.
Length
64
Weight
1500
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-20
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-20
Other Status
<p>LC - Least concern</p>
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
GH - 200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles) - GH - BREEDS: Washington to Wyoming, south to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico (south to Guerrero and Puebla). Rarely across southern Canada and the northern tier of states from British Columbia and Montana west to Manitoba and Minnesota. Rare in north, equally common as Western Grebe in south. WINTERS: Pacific coast from central California south to Mexico; sometimes inland in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. RESIDENT: interior Mexico and parts of California, Arizona and New Mexico (AOU 1998, Sibley 2000).
Global Range Code
GH
Global Range Description
200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles)