Junin Flightless Grebe

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Junin Flightless Grebe
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Podicipediformes
Family: Podicipedidae
Genus: Podiceps
Species: P. taczanowskii
Binomial name
Podiceps taczanowskii
(Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894)

The Junin Flightless Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, also known as the Puna Grebe, is a grebe found only on Lake Junin in the highlands of Junin, west-central Peru. The current population is estimated at less than 250.

The scientific name commemorates the Polish zoologist Władysław Taczanowski, author of Ornithology of Peru (1884-86).

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