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Pied-billed Grebe

Podilymbus podiceps · Family Podicipedidae

Podilymbus podiceps

Family Podicipedidae

Order
Podicipediformes
Family
Podicipedidae
GBIF occurrence records
5,149,925
Countries and territories with records
71
Pied-billed Grebe
Channel City Camera Club from Santa Barbara, US · Pied-billed Grebe (53638106406) (cropped).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Channel City Camera Club from Santa Barbara, US · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 5,149,925 occurrence records from 71 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (87.3%), Canada (8.3%) and Mexico (1%); together they account for 96.6% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Podilymbus podiceps combines the genus name Podilymbus with the species epithet podiceps. It is the only species of the genus Podilymbus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 18 species of the family Podicipedidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 4.8 times the family average (1,068,259). The family Podicipedidae belongs to the order Podicipediformes, which has 18 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Podicipedidae

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