Editing Clark's grebe (section)

{{short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Clark's grebe
| image = Clark's grebe2.jpg
| image_caption = Nonbreeding plumage
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Aechmophorus clarkii'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22696634A93575258 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696634A93575258.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Aechmophorus
| species = clarkii
| authority = ([[George Newbold Lawrence|Lawrence]], 1858)
| range_map = Aechmophorus clarkii map.svg
| range_map_caption = Approximate distribution map
{{leftlegend|#f18e09|Breeding}}
{{leftlegend|#7162c8|Year-round}}
{{leftlegend|#5f9ed3|Nonbreeding}}
}}

'''Clark's grebe''' ('''''Aechmophorus clarkii''''') is a [[North America]]n waterbird [[species]] in the [[grebe]] family.<ref name=Storer1992>{{cite journal |title=Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii) |url=https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/clagre/foodhabits |journal=The Birds of North America Online |last1=Storer |first1=Robert W. |last2=Nuechterlein |first2=Gary L. |date=1992 |publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornothology, Ithaca, New York, USA |doi=10.2173/bna.26b |access-date=7 April 2017|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Until the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale [[Polymorphism (biology)|morph]] of the [[western grebe]], which it resembles in size, range, and behavior. Intermediates between the two species are known.

This species nests on large inland lakes in western North America and [[bird migration|migrates]] to the [[Pacific]] coast over the winter. It maintains local populations year-round in [[California]], [[Nevada]], and [[Arizona]] (the [[Lower Colorado River Valley]]), as well as in central Mexico.<!--See the RangeMap at "www.natureserve.org" for species--> 
It feeds by diving for insects, [[polychaete]] worms, [[crustaceans]], and [[salamander]]s.<ref name=Palmer1962>{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=R. S. |date=1962 |title=Handbook of North American Birds, Vol. 1: Loons through Flamingos |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofnortha01palm|url-access=registration |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-01902-5 }}</ref>

It performs the same elaborate courtship display as the [[western grebe]].<ref name=Nuechterlein1981>{{cite journal |last=Nuechterlein |first=Gary L. |date=April 1981 |title=Courtship behavior and reproductive isolation between Western Grebe color morphs |url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v098n02/p0335-p0349.pdf |journal=The Auk |volume=98 |pages=335–349 |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>