Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Least Grebe FAMILY - Podicipedidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Tachybaptus dominicus SYNONYMS - Colymbus dominicus- Linnaeus 1766 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 29 Resident, species present all year. 3 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 28 Apparently secure in Belize 28 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 4 Corozal 8 Orange Walk 4 Stann Creek 7 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 19 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Sighting Dry season 9 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Dry season 10 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Wet season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Sighting Wet season 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 16 Gallon Jug Sighting Dry season 13 Gallon Jug Sighting Permanent 4 Gallon Jug 14 Chiquibul National Park Sighting Wet season 13 Chiquibul National Park 19 Chiquibul National Park 27 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 25 Community Baboon Sanctuary Dry season 17 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve 27 Caracol Archaeological Reserve 5 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Dry season 6 Private land, see comments Dry season 11 Private land, see comments Dry season 7 Private land, see comments 23 Government land Permanent 18 Monkey River Special Development Area 24 Hydrologic Association Reference Belize River 17 Mussel Creek 6 Sittee River 7 Raspaculo River 9 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 23 1-200 m 26 1-200 m 27 601-800 m 27 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 27 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 26 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 26 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 26 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 26 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 13 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 8 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 25 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 7 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 27 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 25 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 24 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 23 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 26 Subtropical wet 25 Subtropical moist 27 Subtropical moist 26 Subtropical moist 23 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 27 General Distribution Comments 29* Uncommon northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 25* Sp. not observed by Kamstra, reported by Ben Nottingham 19* Guacamallo Bridge 18* Airport Camp 13* Ballerina Camp 11* Gold Button Ranch 8* Mainly Chacan Chac Mol 7* Possum Point Biological Station 3* Uncommon in northern and southern hardwood forests and coastal savannas; fewer than 5 records in mangroves and beaches along coast. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 6 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 7 Anon. 1993. Bird Checklist for Possum Point Biological Station, Sittee River, Belize 8 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 9 Mallory, E. 1991. Survey of Birds and their Habitats, of the Joint Services Scientific Expedition to Upper Raspaculo, Maya Mountains, Belize. 10 Mallory, E. 1993. Birds of the Upper Raspaculo, Belize: JSSEUR II. Unpublished report. 11 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 12 Miller, B. 1994. Summary of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bird Banding Laboratory DATA. in prep. 13 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 14 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 15 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 16 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 17 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 18 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 19 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 20 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller, S. N. G. Howell. In prep. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 21 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 22 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 23 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 24 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 25 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 26 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 27 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 28 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 29 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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