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Record details

BirdPix:   223698
Province:   Western Cape
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   3318CD
Observer:   Stanton S; Heleen Louw
Date of record:   2022-06-04
Number of photos:   1
Notes:  
Last updated:   2022-06-13 18:50:54
Sp. code:   4
Species name:   Podiceps cristatus
Common name:   Great Crested Grebe -- Kuifkopdobbertjie
Family:   Podicipedidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Little Grebe
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix-223698
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 223698 - photo: 1

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Mark Stanton
Comment:   Great Crested Grebe has a long neck (in this image folded down) pale in colour, with top of head black (crests) and rufous ruff. Little Grebe is much smaller, all-dark in colour with rufous neck and a distinctive pale gape-spot (at the corner of the bill).
Date:   2022-06-13 18:50:54
Species name:   Podiceps cristatus -- Great Crested Grebe; Kuifkopdobbertjie
Species code:   4

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