Horned Grebe
Podiceps auritus
VUVulnerable
- Family
- Grebes (Podicipedidae)
- Order
- Podicipediformes
Overview
The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small and threatened species of waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are two subspecies, P. a. auritus (Slavonian grebe), which breeds in Eurasia, and P. a. cornutus (horned grebe), which breeds in North America.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Continents
Countries
- Albania
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Iran
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Korea
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Horned grebe
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
