Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

PODICIPEDIFORMES

Podicipedidae

Podilymbus podiceps
Marshes, ponds, lakes. Lowlands and mts. to 4100 m from s coastal Alaska in the Copper R. region (one record), and from c British Columbia, sc Mackenzie, n Alberta, n Saskatchewan, n Manitoba, c Ontario, sw Quebec, c Maine, s New Brunswick, Prince Edward I. and Nova Scotia s through U.S., Mexico, C. America and W. Indies s to Tobago and Panama, and from Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Guianas s (mostly absent from Amazonia) to c Chile
on Isla Chiloé, and s Argentina in Chubut. Recently on Hawaii.

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Marshes, ponds, lakes. From British Isles, s Sweden, c,s Russia n to a line from Lithuania s to Caucasus and n Caspian Sea, s Russia n to Caspian and Aral seas, and e to Lake Balkash, China incl. Hainan I., Tibet, Taiwan, Japan and Kuril Is., s to n Africa locally from Morocco e to lower Nile River; Mediterranean area incl. most islands; Near and Middle East, Arabia incl. Yemen, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, se Asia, Indonesia in the Greater and
Lesser Sunda islands, Moluccas, Kai Is., Philippines incl. Palawan; n New Guinea; Admiralty Is., Bougainville Island in the n Solomon Is. Africa s of the Sahara from sw Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, s Mali, Burkina Faso, s Niger, Cameroon, Central Afr. Rep., s Chad and s Sudan e to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, s locally through Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana to s S. Africa; Madagascar; Comoro Islands.

Podiceps cristatus
Reed-bordered lakes, sluggish rivers. From British Isles and s Scandinavia e across c,se Russia and sw,se Siberia to Mongolia, w,n China, probably s Korea and Japan, s to nw,ne Africa from Morocco to Tunisia; Nile delta; n Mediterranean region on Corsica and Sardinia, to Turkey, Iran, Transcaucasus, Transcaspia, Turkestan and n India in Kashmir and Ladakh. E,s Africa from highlands of Ethiopia, Zaire, s through rift valley lakes of nw Rwanda, w Uganda and c Kenya to n Tanzania, occurring elsewhere in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, s Mozambique and S. Africa. In sw,e,se Australia from extreme sw W. Australia and ne Queensland s to Victoria and w to se S. Australia, Tasmania; S. Island of New Zealand. Range expanded since 1950.