Holboell's Red-necked Grebe

Podiceps grisegena holbollii (Reinhardt, 1853) (1, 1)

Photo ©

Roger Riddington, Quendale, Mainland, Shetland, February 2024

Sub-species

STATUS

Holarctic.

OVERVIEW

Only in-hand measurements can separate it from the local population.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 1925 Highland Gruinard Bay, Ross & Cromarty, shot, September.

(N. B. Kinnear, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 48: 53, 70-71; BOURC (1928), Ibis 70: 321; H. F. Witherby, British Birds 22: 100-101; E. V. Baxter & L. J. Rintoul, Scottish Naturalist 49: 111; Baxter & Rintoul, 1953; Thom, 1986; R. Y. McGowan, British Birds 99: 481; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007).

2). 2024 Shetland Quendale, Mainland, male, 5th to 10th February, photo, found dead 15th February, identification confirmed by biometrics.

(British Birds 117: plate 163; R. Riddington, A. H. J. Harrop & J. M. Collinson, British Birds 117: 550-558, plates 424-427).