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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Podiceps
- Image
- Podicephorus major -Santa Vitoria do Palmar, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -swimming-8.jpg
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- P105
- species
- P141
- Least Concern
- P9714
- South America
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The great grebe (Podiceps major) is the largest species of grebe in the world. A disjunct population exists in northwestern Peru, while the main distribution is from extreme southeastern Brazil to Patagonia and central Chile. The population from southern Chile is considered a separate subspecies, P. m. navasi.
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