Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Pied-billed Grebe FAMILY - Podicipedidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Podilymbus podiceps SYNONYMS - Colymbus podiceps - Linnaeus, 1758 REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Winter visitor - migrant. 27 Resident, species present all year. 3 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 26 Apparently secure in Belize 26 Of concern: cayes and coastal zone 25 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 21 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 5 Corozal 8 Orange Walk 7 Toledo 11 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Migrant 17 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary 11 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 11 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 22 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 10 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 15 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 12 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 14 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve 7 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Winter Res 4 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 6 Private land, see comments Dry season 16 Government land Collected as voucher 24 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 22 New River 11 Cox's Lagoon 4 Mussel Creek 6 New River 7 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 22 1-200 m 23 1-200 m 24 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 16 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 23 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 23 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 17 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 23 Subtropical wet 12 Subtropical moist 24 Subtropical moist 23 Subtropical moist 22 Subtropical Lower Montane wet 17 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 17 General Distribution Comments 27* Uncommon northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 16* Big Falls 11* Ycacos Lagoon 8* Mainly Chacan Chac Mol 3* Common in northern and southern hardwood forests and coastal savannas, uncommon in summer. 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 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8. 5 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. 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 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 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 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 10 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 11 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 12 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 13 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 14 Forsythe, D. 1994. Unpublished Belize Trip list June 18-21. 15 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 16 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 17 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 18 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller, S. N. G. Howell. In prep. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 19 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 20 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 21 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 22 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 23 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 24 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 25 McRae, E., 1994. The Birds of Belize's Coastal Zone: Species, Distribution, Current Status, Threats to Their Well-being, and Potential Measures to Reduce Their impact. Unpublished report. 26 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. 27 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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