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The species Atitlan Grebe is extinct.

Podilymbus gigas

[edit] Identification

46–50 cm

• Dark brown, white-flecked flanks
• Dark grey underparts flecked with white
• Black head
• Neck flecked dark brown in the spring and white in the winter
• Slaty grey legs,
• Black bill with vertical central band
• Brown irisis
• Small winged

[edit] Distribution

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

Last reported 1986^[1]

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Lakes.

[edit] Behaviour

Flightless.

[edit] Breeding

Four to five white eggs were laid and cared for by both parents.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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