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Long-term BBS trends
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-1.91 (-3.08 - -0.766)|
Mean abundance (number of birds detected per 5 min. point count) and percentage of squares occupied by region Bird Conservation Regions [abund. plot]
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Atlas Results
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Note: During all years of the Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas drought conditions persisted and the Atlas range maps for all waterfowl, waterbirds, and wetland-associated species should be viewed as characteristic of distribution and abundance during dry conditions. Read the full drought statement here.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
The Horned Grebe rides lower in the water than the Eared Grebe, and catches its food with long dives (Jim Hay in Leighton et al. 2002). Essentially a western Canadian bird in the breeding season, the Horned Grebe nests from Alaska east to southern Hudson Bay and the Manitoba-Ontario border. It winters along both coasts, and, less commonly, on the larger lakes of eastern North America. Like the Eared and Red-necked Grebes, it is also found in Eurasia.
A familiar grebe in the prairie region, the Horned Grebe frequents freshwater sloughs, marshes, and lake edges where emergent vegetation is abundant (Wapple and Renaud 2008). It prefers smaller water bodies than other grebe species.
For many decades, the North American breeding range of the species has been slowly contracting northwestward, confirmed by BBS and Christmas Bird Count counts. While still relatively common in Saskatchewan grasslands and parklands, and uncommon and local in the boreal forest regions and the subarctic region (Smith 1996), there has been a marked decrease in Horned Grebe numbers since the 1970s.
Original text by Robert Warnock. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Horned Grebe in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Horned Grebe in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=HOGR&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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