red phalarope, grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) Description
Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria, Morro Bay Estuary near the harbor entrance, Morro Bay, CA 18may2007 - Canon 20D 100-400mm IS handheld from a kayak - photo by Mike Baird http://bairdphotos.com/
Date 18 May 2007, 09:29
Source red-phalarope_d_f_5.6_1_1600 s_morro-bay http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/504033168/
Author Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA http://www.flickr.com/people/72825507@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phalaropus_fulicarius_10.jpg
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. Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae, Genus: Phalaropus, Species: Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758).
Synonyms:
Crymophilus fulicarius
Phalaropus fulicaria