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Species
Least ConcernClark's grebe
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPodicipediformes
- FamilyPodicipedidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Aechmophorus
- Image
- Clark's grebe2.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Aechmophorus clarkii
- Commons category
- Aechmophorus clarkii
- Commons gallery
- Aechmophorus clarkii
- taxon common name
- mergulhão-de-clark
- litter size
- 3.5
- egg incubation period
- 23
- short name
- A. clarkii
- Digital Atlas of Idaho URL
- digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/bio/birds/grebes/clgr/clgr_mai.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
Clark's grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii) is a North American waterbird species in the grebe family. Until the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale morph of the western grebe, which it resembles in size, range, and behavior. Intermediates between the two species are known.
This species nests on large inland lakes in western North America and migrates to the Pacific coast over the winter. It maintains local populations year-round in California, Nevada, and Arizona (the Lower Colorado River Valley), as well as in central Mexico. It feeds by diving for insects, polychaete worms, crustaceans, and salamanders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clark's Grebe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.