Great Grebe

Podiceps major (Boddaert, 1783)

Great Grebe, Podiceps major, is a grebe of South America, breeding along coastal western Peru and from Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil to southern Chile and Argentina. It is the largest grebe in the world and has a form more like a goose or cormorant than a typical grebe. Its neck and chest are buffy-rufous, the back is blackish, the belly is whitish, and the head is sooty grey with a reddish-brown eye. It lives mainly on open waterways, including lakes, slow rivers, estuaries and marshes, and breeds in heavily vegetated inlets off large lakes.

Order

Podicipediformes

Family

Podicipedidae — Grebes

Breeding range

South America: coastal w Peru; Paraguay and se Brazil to s Chile and Argentina