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3.78 (1.83 - 5.85)|
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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 Red-necked Grebe sends its raucous calls echoing across the water at all hours of the day and night on the large sloughs and lakes of the parklands and southern boreal forest (Roy 1996). The Red-necked Grebe migrates over land strictly at night, sometimes in large flocks over water or along coasts (ibid.). The Red-necked Grebe has a Holarctic distribution; in North America it breeds mainly in the western and central portions of the boreal forest, and winters on either the west coast south to California or the east coast south to Georgia.
The species is found regularly on relatively fresh waters including marshes, sloughs, smaller lakes, and the sheltered, marshy bays of larger lakes.
Red-necked Grebes are fairly common in central Saskatchewan and in the Cypress Hills. Their abundance is much lower in the sterile Precambrian Shield lakes of the northern boreal and subarctic regions. Except for nestings on the comparatively fresh waters of the Cypress Hills, Last Mountain Lake, Wascana Lake, Pike Lake, and Condie and Blackstrap Reservoirs, the species is generally only a rare transient on the predominantly saline lakes of the prairies (Smith 1996).
Original text by Robert Warnock. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Red-necked Grebe in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Red-necked 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=RNGR&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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