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Podicipedidae

grebes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 136995ITIS 174477key itis:174477
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2026-08-05: worms_id 136995 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Grebes are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes. Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter.W CalCOFI holds 138 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 4 taxa under it.R

138
observations
138
records
1987–2020
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
Photograph of Podicipedidae
Photo · Ezequiel Racker · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Aechmophorus most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174477")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Aechmophorus most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Podicipediformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗