Editing Horned grebe (section)

{{short description|Species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Podiceps auritus (13909539717).jpg
| image_caption = ''P. a. auritus'' in breeding plumage in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia
| image2 = Horned grebe (Podiceps auritus) in basic plumage, Scarborough Marsh, Maine, USA.png
| image2 caption = Horned Grebe in basic plumage in [[Scarborough Marsh]], [[Maine]].
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Podiceps auritus'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22696606A132066871 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22696606A132066871.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Podiceps
| species = auritus
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| range_map = Slavonian Grebe-location-map-en.svg
| range_map_caption = {{legend0|#F1F53D|Breeding range|border=1px solid gray}}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{legend0|#F58821|Winter range|border=1px solid gray}}
| synonyms = 
*''Colymbus auritus'' {{small|Linnaeus,&nbsp;1758}}
*'''''Pliodytes lanquisti''''' {{small|Murray,&nbsp;1967}}
*''[[Podiceps dixi]]'' {{small|Brodkorp,&nbsp;1963}}?
*''[[Podiceps howardae]]'' {{small|Storer,&nbsp;2001}}?
*''[[Podiceps pisanus]]'' {{small|(Shufeldt,&nbsp;1913)}}?
}}

The '''horned grebe''' or '''Slavonian grebe''' ('''''Podiceps auritus''''') is a relatively small and [[Threatened species|threatened]] species of [[waterbird]] in the family [[Podicipedidae]].<ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021"/> There are two [[subspecies]], ''P.&nbsp;a. auritus'' (Slavonian grebe), which breeds in [[Eurasia]], and ''P.&nbsp;a. cornutus'' (horned grebe), which breeds in [[North America]].<ref name="HBW">{{Cite book|last1=del Hoyo|first1=J.|last2=Elliot|first2=A.|last3=Sargatal|first3=J.|year=1992|title=[[Handbook of the Birds of the World]]|publisher=Lynx Edicions|volume=1|pages=193–194|isbn=978-8487334108}}</ref><ref name="BLI">{{Cite web|url=http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3640|title=Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus|year=2015|website=Birdlife International}}</ref><ref name="BWP">{{cite book | last=Cramp | first=Stanley | title=Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: Volume 1 Ostrich to ducks | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Oxford London New York | date=1977 | isbn=0-19-857358-8 | pages=97–105}}</ref> The Eurasian subspecies is distributed over most of northern Europe and northern Asia, breeding from [[Iceland]] east to the [[Russian Far East]].<ref name="Fjeldså">{{Cite journal|last=Fjeldså|first=Jon|year=1973|title=Distribution and Geographic Variation of the Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758).|journal=Ornis Scandinavica|volume=4|issue=1| pages = 55–86| issn=0030-5693 | doi=10.2307/3676290 | jstor=3676290 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279956314 }}</ref> The North American subspecies spans most of Canada and some of the United States.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Stedman|year=2000|title=Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)|journal=The Birds of North America|volume=505|doi=10.2173/tbna.505.p}}</ref> A small population was cited in [[Greenland]] in 1973,<ref name="Fjeldså"/> but is not mapped or further mentioned by subsequent authors.<ref name="HBW"/><ref name="BWP"/><ref name="BLI"/>

The American name 'horned' refers to the orange-yellow crest feathers located above and behind the eyes, called "horns". The English name, originally 'Sclavonian', is first attested by [[George Montagu (naturalist)|George Montagu]] in his 1802 ''[[Ornithological Dictionary]]'',<ref name="Montagu">{{cite book | last1=Montagu | first1=G. | last2=Bensley | first2=T. | title=Ornithological Dictionary; Or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds | publisher=J. White | issue=v. 1-2 | year=1802 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQkAAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA13-PP10 | access-date=2024-10-30 | page=13-PP10}}</ref> from ''[[Sclavonia (disambiguation)|Sclavonia]]'', an old name for northern Prussia, referring to the species' main breeding area in Europe;<ref name="Lockwood">{{cite book|last = Lockwood| first = W. B.|title = Oxford Book of British Bird Names|publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 1984}}</ref> the spelling was emended (without any reason given) to the current 'Slavonian' by Hartert in 1912.<ref name="s686">{{cite book | last1=Hartert | first1=Ernst | last2=Jourdain | first2=F. C. R. | last3=Ticehurst | first3=Norman F. | title=A hand-list of British birds, with an account of the distribution of each species in the British Isles and abroad | publisher=Witherby | publication-place=London | year=1912 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8013 | doi-access=free | page=157}}</ref>