REDNECPHA M 8930

Male Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, 7.75 in. / 19.7 cm., the smallest of the phalarope species. Locally COMMON. Nests in grass near tundra ponds. Winters in small flocks on open ocean along lines of floating weeds and debris.

 

Utqiavik (formerly Barrow), North Slope Burrough, Alaska, United States.

 

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