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Red-necked phalarope // Phalaropus lobatus // Svømmesnipe
The English and genus names for phalaropes come through French phalarope and scientific Latin phalaropus from Ancient Greek phalaris, "coot", and pous, "foot". Coots and phalaropes both have lobed toes. The specific lobatus is New Latin for lobed, for the same reason.
It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
This picture is taken in a little pond in southern Iceland.
Red-necked phalarope // Phalaropus lobatus // Svømmesnipe
The English and genus names for phalaropes come through French phalarope and scientific Latin phalaropus from Ancient Greek phalaris, "coot", and pous, "foot". Coots and phalaropes both have lobed toes. The specific lobatus is New Latin for lobed, for the same reason.
It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
This picture is taken in a little pond in southern Iceland.