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I spent a week in Nome and another in Barrow with Sabrewing this June. Since both places are above the Arctic Circle we were shooting mainly at night where the sun was on the horizon producing lovely soft light. I got images of 78 species and 22 lifers, amongst which were 4 eiders, 3 jaegers, 2 phalaropes, 2 ptarmigan and many shorebirds in breeding plumage.
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Ici une femelle, toujours plus colorée que le mâle.
Juin 1979
Juggejæggi, Kvalnes, Varangerfjord, Finnmark, Norvège
Asahi Pentax spotmatic F ; smc Takumar 1:3.5 135mm
Kodachrome 64
Juvenile. Extremely challenging to photograph, this bird spent much of its time in the middle of the channel or hidden behind the reeds. With the wind blowing, I had a very small window of opportunity to grab a photo as it swam past a small gap in the reedbed. This was literally the only shot I got that wasn't obscured by the reeds blowing in front of the lens.
Ungur óðinshani í fjöruborðinu á Flatey á Skjálfanda.
A young phalarope in Flatey, northern Iceland. The red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) is a small wader with lobed toes to assist with their swimming.
When feeding, a red-necked phalarope swims rapidly in small circles, forming a small vortex and then plucks small insects that get caught by the whirls.
Female. In Britain, this beautiful wader is on the southern limit of its breeding range and with only around 30 pairs nesting in Shetland and the Western Isles, it one our rarest breeding birds.
In phalaropes, it’s the females that are the more brightly colored sex. They get into fierce fights over the males they want to mate with. Then after they’ve laid their eggs, they take no part in raising the young and often seek out another male and lay another clutch.
Phalaropus lobatus juvenile,
Cayucos Creek, Cayucos, California
In appreciation for how close this bird tolerated me while I watched it preen.
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Ici un mâle, moins coloré que la femelle.
Juin 1979
Juggejæggi, Kvalnes, Varangerfjord, Finnmark, Norvège
Asahi Pentax spotmatic F ; smc Takumar 1:3.5 135mm
Kodachrome 64
There were many females around during our visit. The duller males would have been incubating eggs whilst all the females were squabbling over the remaining males. The females lay the eggs and after that the males take over all the incubation leaving the females to play the field and find more partners.
Phalaropus lobatus
Red-necked Phalarope
Odinshühnchen
Falaropo Picofino
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Female, alternate plumage, Corcoran Lagoon. This is a spring bird worth waiting for. The immature and non-breeding birds are nothing to write home about, but in the spring they are special! This is a bird species in which the female is more colorful than the male. I've seen them in ponds and lagoons, as well as in salt water seen from above, looking down from the Wharf. But seeing one walking around on dry ground was a first for me. The feet are well suited for walking, and as it turned out it was fine with staying on the shore for the entire time I watched it, except for briefly getting its ankles wet!
Red-necked Phalarope, which is uncommon in Ottawa. Thanks to Ross Taylor and Sandra Fraser for the heads up!
Norvège Varanger - C'est un oiseau d'eau de la famille des limicoles, petit par rapport à un canard et très peu farouche. Ici en plumage nuptial.
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From my first encounter with the red-necked phalaropes (Phalaropus lobatus), on Svalbard last summer.
(Svømmesnipe in Norwegian)
My album of images from Svalbard here.
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Watching the phalaropes swimming is mesmerizing!
The red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) is a small wader with lobed toes to assist with their swimming. When feeding, a red-necked phalarope swims rapidly in small circles, forming a small vortex and then plucks small insects that get caught by the whirls.
Óðinshanar á sundi, Flatey á Skjálfanda.