Horned grebe

Horned grebe
Horned grebe in breeding plumage in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Podicipediformes
Family:	Podicipedidae
Genus:	Podiceps
Species:	P. auritus
Binomial name
Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Breeding range        Winter range
Synonyms
Colymbus auritus Linnaeus, 1758 Pliodytes lanquisti Murray, 1967 Podiceps dixi Brodkorp, 1963? Podiceps howardae Storer, 2001? Podiceps pisanus (Shufeldt, 1913)?

The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small and threatened species of waterbird in the family Podicipedidae.^[1] There are two subspecies: P. a. auritus, which breeds in Eurasia, and P. a. cornutus, which breeds in North America.^[2] The Eurasian subspecies is distributed over most of northern Europe and northern Asia, breeding from Greenland east to the Russian Far East.^[3] The North American subspecies spans most of Canada and some of the United States.^[4] The species got its name from large patches of yellowish feathers located behind the eyes, called "horns", that the birds can raise and lower at will.^{[citation needed]}.