Red-necked Grebe

Podiceps griseigena Boddaert, 1783

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The Red-necked Grebe is a Holarctic species with a disjunct distribution. The western subspecies (P. g. grisegena) occurs east as far as the Ob' River while the range of the eastern subspecies (P. g. holboelli) stretches west to the middle and upper reaches of the Viluy River. Central Siberia lies just in the gap between the two ranges, and until recently only some few unreliable records for the territory were known (Sushkin 1914). Recently, however, S.M. Prokofyev found the species breeding rarely but regularly on overgrowing lakes in steppe and forest-steppe areas of the Minusinsk depression (Prokofyev 1987). This is the species of small grebe that occurs farthest to the north; it penetrates into the deciduous and mixed forests of subtaiga and even into southern taiga where suitable bodies of water are available (mainly on the floodplain within the forest zone). The species is included in the Red Data Book of the Krasnoyarsk territory.

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