. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PODICIPEDID^. 725. THE LITTLE GREBE. PoDiciPES FLUViATiLis (Tunstall). This species—familiarly known as the Dabchick—is resident and generally distributed on the reedy streams, lakes and ponds of England; it may even be found nesting on some of the ornamental waters of London, notably in St. James's Park. In Scotland it is less plentiful, though found northward to the Shetlands, and west- ward it nests in the Outer Hebrides, while it breeds up to an elevation of 2,000 feet or even more in the Highlands; it is how- ever more frequently noticed in
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PODICIPEDID^. 725. THE LITTLE GREBE. PoDiciPES FLUViATiLis (Tunstall). This species—familiarly known as the Dabchick—is resident and generally distributed on the reedy streams, lakes and ponds of England; it may even be found nesting on some of the ornamental waters of London, notably in St. James's Park. In Scotland it is less plentiful, though found northward to the Shetlands, and west- ward it nests in the Outer Hebrides, while it breeds up to an elevation of 2,000 feet or even more in the Highlands; it is how- ever more frequently noticed in winter, when there is less chance of concealment and the freezing of the inland waters drives it to the coast. In Ireland it is common, and breeds in every county. The Little Grebe is seldom met with in the Faeroes and has not yet been recorded from Iceland; while in Norway its range seldom extends beyond lat. 62''. On both sides of the Baltic it is rare, even in summer ; but it is of tolerably general distribution over the rest of the Continent, and is resident in the south; as it is in temperate Asia as far east as Japan, and also in North Africa. Very closely- allied forms are its representatives in South Africa, Madagascar, Southern Asia, the Malay archipelago, Northern Australia, New Zealand, and North America. The nest—which is somewhat large for the size of the bird—is composed of and moored to aquatic plants, or shrubs; and in it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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