Colombian Grebe

Podiceps andinus

The Colombian grebe is an extinct species of flightless grebe that inhabited the Bogotá wetlands on the Bogotá savanna in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes of Colombia. The species was still abundant in Lake Tota in 1945. The species has often been considered a subspecies of black-necked grebe, and is genetically nested within it; it differed from black-necked grebe most notably in having a reddish-brown foreneck, and more orangey-toned ear tufts.

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