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Aechmophorus occidentalis

Western Grebe

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 366617ITIS 174503key itis:174503
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2026-08-05: worms_id 366617 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

calcofi:seabirds

The western grebe is a species in the grebe family of water birds. Folk names include "dabchick", "swan grebe" and "swan-necked grebe".W CalCOFI holds 78 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2020.R

78
observations
78
records
78
sampling events
1988–2020
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Aechmophorus occidentalis
Photo · Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:174503%22

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.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Aechmophorus
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird

WikidataiNaturalistGBIFeBird

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 ↗