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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Grebes, Loons Little Grebe Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis capensis)   Range: PAL, AF, OR (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Little Grebe) last first previous  (Little Grebe) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Additional Information English Little Grebe Scientific (Tachybaptus ruficollis capensis) Order PODICIPEDIFORMES Family (Latin) Podicipedidae Family (English) Grebes Other name(s) Grèbe castagneux Breeding Regions PAL, AF, OR Breeding Range Subregions Europe (except n) to c, s, e Asia and Philippines; Africa and Malagasy region Nonbreeding Range Subregions Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh, Belarus,Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Cape Verde, Central African Republic,Chad,China,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark, Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia, Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova, Monaco,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria, North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania, Russia,Rwanda,San Marino,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia, Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Swaziland,Sweden, Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan, Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe, IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range ruficollis Europe from Great Britain, s Scandinavia and s Spain to Black Sea and nw Africa albescens Caucasus to Lake Balkash (ne Kazakhstan), Tien Shan, Indian Subcontinent to Myanmar iraquensis Iraq and sw Iran capensis Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and Comoros poggei Kuril Is., Japan including Ryukyu Is., Korean Pen., e China, Taiwan and Hainan philippensis Philippines (except Mindanao and perhaps Palawan group) and n Borneo cotabato Mindanao (s Philippines) IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by (Pallas, 1764) German Zwergtaucher French Grèbe castagneux Chinese 小䴙䴘 Japanese カイツブリ Russian Малая поганка Spanish Zampullín común Portuguese mergulhão-pequeno Bird Data App text   Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes   Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated PE Probably extinct (informal) PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal) next (Little Grebe) last first previous  (Little Grebe)