Red phalarope
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The red phalarope or grey phalarope (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, migrates mainly on oceanic routes, wintering at sea on tropical oceans.
Taxonomy
In 1750, the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the red phalarope in the third volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. He used the English name "The Red-footed Tringa". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a preserved specimen that had been brought to London from the Hudson Bay area of Canada by James Isham.[4] When the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition in 1758, he included the red phalarope and placed it with phalaropes and sandpipers in the genus Tringa. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Tringa fulicaria and cited Edwards' work.[5] The red phalarope is now one of three species placed in the genus Phalaropus that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson.[6][7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]
The English and genus names for phalaropes come through French phalarope and scientific Latin Phalaropus from Ancient Greek phalaris, "coot", and pous, "foot". The specific fulicarius is from Latin fulica, "coot". Coots and phalaropes both have lobed toes.[8][9]
Description
The red phalarope is about 21 cm (8.3 in) in length, with lobed toes and a straight bill, somewhat thicker than that of red-necked phalarope. The breeding female is predominantly dark brown and black above, with red underparts and white cheek patches. The bill is yellow, tipped black. The breeding male is a duller version of the female. Young birds are light grey and brown above, with buff underparts and a dark patch through the eye. In winter, the plumage is essentially grey above and white below, but the black eyepatch is always present. The bill is black in winter. Their call is a short beek.
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| length | 200–230 mm (7.7–9 in) |
| weight | 55 g (1.9 oz) |
| wingspan | 430 mm (17 in) |
| wing | 121–132 mm (4.8–5.2 in) |
| tail | 58.5–67.1 mm (2.30–2.64 in) |
| culmen | 21–23 mm (0.83–0.91 in) |
| tarsus | 21.8–23 mm (0.86–0.91 in) |
Breeding
The typical avian sex roles are reversed in the three phalarope species. Females are larger and more brightly coloured than males. The females pursue males, compete for nesting territory, and will aggressively defend their nests and chosen mates. Once the females lay their olive-brown eggs, they begin their southward migration, leaving the males to incubate the eggs and care for the young. Three to six eggs are laid in a ground nest near water. Incubation lasts 18 or 19 days.[10] The young mainly feed themselves and are able to fly within 18 days of birth.
Behaviour
Template:Inline citations needed When feeding, a red phalarope will often swim in a small, rapid circle, forming a small whirlpool. This behaviour is thought to aid feeding by raising food from the bottom of shallow water. The bird will reach into the outskirts of the vortex with its bill, plucking small insects or crustaceans caught up therein. They sometimes fly up to catch insects in flight. On the open ocean, they are found in areas where converging ocean currents produce upwellings and are often found near groups of whales. Outside of the nesting season they often travel in flocks.
This species is often very tame and approachable.[citation needed]
Status and conservation
The red phalarope is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[12]Template:Rp
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stone, Witmer (1907). "Some Changes in the Current Generic Names of North American Birds". Auk. 24 (2): 189–199. doi:10.2307/4070852. JSTOR 4070852.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Edwards, George (1750). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Vol. Part III. London: Printed for the author at the College of Physicians. p. 142, Plate 142.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 146.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in français and Latina). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 50, Vol. 6, p. 12.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 165, 301. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Godfrey, W. Earl (1966). The Birds of Canada. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. p. 166.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sibley, David Allen (2000). The Sibley Guide to Birds. New York: Knopf. p. 195. ISBN 0-679-45122-6.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA): Annex 2" (PDF). As amended at the Sixth Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA. Bonn, Germany. 9–14 November 2015. pp. 21–27. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
External links
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- Red phalarope at eNature.com
- Red phalarope stamps from Iceland, Kiribati and Sierra Leone at bird-stamps.org
- BirdLife species factsheet for Phalaropus fulicarius
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- Red phalarope photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Interactive range map of Phalaropus fulicarius at IUCN Red List
- Red phalarope - Phalaropus fulicarius Script error: No such module "webarchive". - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Audio recordings of Red phalarope on Xeno-canto.
- Phalaropus fulicarius in Field Guide: Birds of the World on Flickr
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