BirdUp · Species
Red Phalarope
Phalaropus fulicarius(Linnaeus, 1758)
Least Concern
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Phalaropus
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The red phalarope or grey 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, migrates mainly on oceanic routes, wintering at sea on tropical oceans.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : mostly high (locally low) Arctic marshy tundra of Holarctic: from south-west and east-central Greenland, Iceland (local), Svalbard (north of Norway), Novaya Zemlya and north Siberia to Bering Strait; north Alaska and north Canada including south tier of Arctic Canadian islands
- Non-breeding range
- Temperate to tropical coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific oceans: from north California to south Chile (east Pacific) and Atlantic USA to north Florida (west North Atlantic); coastal waters of east tropical and South Atlantic off north-west, west and south-west Africa. Rare vagrant to Southern Ocean and coastal Australia.
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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