Tachybaptus dominicus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, freshwater lakes and ponds • Maximum Elevation: 2,600 meters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 180 meters (592 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly:

Fish

Lesser Quantities of: Aquatic Invertebrates

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Wetland-open water
• Clutch Size: 3-6
• Length of Incubation : 21 days
• Number of Broods: 2-3?

Migration

non-migratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Tachybaptus dominicus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Pied-Billed Grebe

Members of the genus Tachybaptus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. dominicus (Santo Domingo Grebe) · T. dominicus bangsi (Least Grebe) · T. dominicus dominicus (Santo Domingo Grebe) · T. novaehollandiae (Australasian Dabchick) · T. novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Australian Dabchick) · T. pelzelnii (Madagascar Little Grebe) · T. ruficollis (Common Dabchick) · T. ruficollis capensis (African Dabchick) · T. ruficollis iraquensis (Iraq Little Grebe) · T. ruficollis poggei (Little Grebe) · T. ruficollis ruficollis (European Little Grebe) · T. rufolavatus (Madagascar Red-Necked Grebe)

More Info

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Further Reading

• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 118.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 7, p. 798.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 145.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 165, p. 521.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Argentina / Raymond A. Paynter. 1995 Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1995. url p. 882.
• Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. J. B. Hatcher in charge. Edited by William B. Scott. Princeton, The University, 1901-32 [v. 1, 1903] url p. 59.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 5.
• The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url .
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 18 1976 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 113.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Tachybaptus dominicus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8742
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174511
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2482044
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174508
• IUCN ID: 244998
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNCA01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13661

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 460.120 based on 2,466 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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