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Red Phalarope

Photo: Paul Cools · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Birds

Red Phalarope

Phalaropus fulicarius

Observations in the area
1
Last sighting
1 December 2019
Category
Birds
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The species

The red phalarope (called grey phalarope in Europe), Phalaropus fulicarius, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, migrating mainly on oceanic routes and wintering at sea on tropical oceans.

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