
Podiceps nigricollis
Table Mountain National Park is the atlas place where the Black-necked Grebe is recorded, with records concentrating in the United States, Spain, Belgium, Canada and France. The atlas holds about 598,000 records of the bird from 12 countries. Because its mapping is partial, the map indicates where these records cluster rather than the full range of Podiceps nigricollis.
Recording seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months when the bird was recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Black-necked Grebe as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.