Family: Podicipedidae (Grebes)

Authority: (Meyer de Schauensee, 1959)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was only known from Lake Tota, Colombia. It was last recorded in 1977 and is now Extinct as a result of human-induced changes to the lake, with intensive searches in 1981 failing to find it.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Freshwater