Editing Grebe (section)

==Conservation==
[[File:Tachybaptus rufolavatus - Zürich Zoo.JPG|thumb|[[Alaotra grebe]] (''T.&nbsp;rufolavatus'') was one of the three species of lake endemic grebes that have gone extinct. ]]
Thirty percent of the total extant species are considered to be threatened species by the IUCN. The handful of critically endangered and extinct species of grebe are lake endemics and nearly all of them are or were flightless. The three recently extinct species consist of the [[Alaotra grebe]], the [[Atitlán grebe]], and the [[Colombian grebe]]. These species went extinct due to anthropogenic changes, such as habitat loss, the introduction of invasive predatory fishes, and the use of fishing nets that tangled birds in the lakes they once existed in. Similar issues are befalling the Colombian grebe's closest relatives, the [[Junin grebe]] and [[hooded grebe]], along with climate change.<ref name="Hume2017">{{cite book | last1 = Hume | first1 =J. P. |year=2017 |title=Extinct Birds: Second Edition | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | location=London | isbn = 978-1472937445}}</ref>{{Rp|73–75}}<ref name="Winkleretal2020">{{cite journal |url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/podici1/cur/introduction |title=Grebes (Podicipedidae) version 1.0. |last1=Winkler |first1=D. W. |last2=Billerman |first2=S. M. |last3=Lovette |first3=I. J. |editor1-last=Billerman |editor1-first=S. M. |editor2-last=Keeney |editor2-first=B. K. |editor3-last=Rodewald |editor3-first=P. G. |editor4-last=Schulenberg |editor4-first=T. S. |date=2020 |website=Birds of the World |location=Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA |doi=10.2173/bow.podici1.01 |s2cid=240888948 |access-date=21 December 2022 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221135718/https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/podici1/cur/introduction |url-status=live }}</ref>