Red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena)

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The red-necked grebe is a nearly circumpolar inhabitant of northern waters. In North America, it winters on northern Atlantic and Pacific coastlines. It moves inland to breed on small lakes and other suitable water bodies in the northern prairies, western parklands, and forests, north to near tree line. Important information on the breeding biology and behavior of this species in North America is available from graduate studies conducted at nesting areas in the southern portion of its breeding. A study in the Northwest Territories provides data on nesting ecology in boreal subarctic. Only since 1989, however, have studies been undertaken on nesting populations with marked. The discovery of a large fall diurnal migration of red-necked grebes through Lake Superior in 1989 by the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (Michigan) provided a unique opportunity for direct observation of the migration behavior of this species, which typically migrates nocturnally. Although the winter habits of these birds are known to some extent from European studies, basic information on winter biology in North America and eastern Asia is lacking. The development of microsatellite DNA markers for this species will provide a valuable tool for further studies of the species’ ecology and populations.

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Full Citation: Stout, Bonnie E., and Gary L. Nuechterlein. 1999. Red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena). The Birds of North America Online, Alan Poole, editor. No. 465. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/465.

Location: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/465/