Horned grebe: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the horned grebe lives – recorded in 31 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Podiceps auritus
Group	Seabirds, divers & grebes
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	31 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe, North America
Mass	22.5 g (birth weight); 450 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Podicipediformes
Family	Podicipedidae

Where does the horned grebe live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the horned grebe in 31 countries and territories across Asia, Europe and North America. In Spain it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a horned grebe?

Wikidata records the following for the horned grebe: mass 22.5 g (birth weight); 450 g (adult weight).

Is the horned grebe endangered?

The horned grebe’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the horned grebe?

The horned grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a bird in the order Podicipediformes and the family Podicipedidae, genus Podiceps. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the horned grebe

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. The Eurasian subspecies is distributed over most of northern Europe and northern Asia, breeding from Iceland east to the Russian Far East. The North American subspecies spans most of Canada and some of the United States. A small population was cited in Greenland in 1973, but is not mapped or further mentioned by subsequent authors.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Horned grebe (revision 1365097959), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q192058 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).