BirdUp · Species
Red-necked Phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus(Linnaeus, 1758)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Phalaropus
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The red-necked phalarope, also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : mostly low Arctic to subarctic Holarctic tundra and alpine tundra: south Greenland, Iceland, Scotland (rare), north Scandinavia, and Arctic and subarctic Russia to Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is.; Aleutian Is., Arctic and subarctic Alaska and Canada
- Non-breeding range
- To tropical and subtropical coastal waters and coasts: Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Bay of Bengal; seas of Indonesian Arch., off north and west New Guinea and Bismarck Arch.; and south-east North Pacific coasts of west Mexico and Central America to Peru and Galápagos
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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