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title: "Mergulhão-caçador"
description: "Podilymbus podiceps — Aves. The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pied-billed-grebe
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mergulhão-caçador

> Podilymbus podiceps — Aves. The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Podilymbus podiceps*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 97662
- Wikidata: [Q579718](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579718)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4246](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4246)

## Names

- en: Pied-billed Grebe
- de: Bindentaucher
- es: Zambullidor pico grueso
- fr: Grèbe à bec bigarré
- nl: Dikbekfuut
- pt: Mergulhão-caçador
- pl: Perkoz grubodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

US (72591), CA (9516), MX (6774), AR (1947), BR (924), CO (663), CL (638), EC (206), PE (135), HN (112), DO (111), PR (80)

## Summary

The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-billed_grebe

## Photo

![Mergulhão-caçador](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pied-billed-grebe/medium.jpg)

Photo: kent ozment · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44246965

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pied-billed-grebe?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).