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Red-Necked Phalaropes © Kevin Rutherford, Fern Lake Photography. Photo taken on the Boulder Flying Circus Birders Walk on September 28, 2019.
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red-necked phalarope
(phalaropus lobatus)
Place: Ishøj Strandenge, Denmark
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Swarovski ATX 30-70x/95mm + TLS APO 30mm + Nikon D3300
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.
Trish and I spent ten days wandering around the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island during our holidays. Unlike last year, this year I'm going to try to get our vacation pics posted before spring of 2017.
From Aug 04, 2016.
Red-necked Phalaropes seen while out whale watching out of Port McNeill. The day started out very dull and gray and eventually got somewhat nicer by the end of the tour.
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Red-necked Phalarope. Previous records of only individual birds on four occasions in the NT. More in than a dozen in Dawin at around this time (+ one Grey), but these two weren't getting on...
Mr. Red-Necked Phalarope. A few days earlier apparently there were a dozen or so of this species migrating through at this site. This time there was only the pair, but lifers for me, so quite thrilled to see them and thus keeping this awful pic, as my best of this fellow.
Phalaropes have the females as the flashy ones - the males actually raise the young, and are much more muted in color as a result. The females, once they have laid a clutch, sometimes even leave it with the male and go on and start another nest with a different male.
A red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) was found in the VetMed pond on the Virginia Tech campus today. Since they breed in the Arctic, she's a little off-course. (A lifer for me!)
Male Red-necked Phalarope (Svømmesnipe, Phalaropus lobatus) at Vadsødammen, Vadsø, Varanger, Finnmark, Norway, June 2019.
Present in good numbers in the pond with up to 57 individuals.
Record shots of my first Red necked phalarope.Taken at RSPB Middleton Lakes in Staffordshire/Warwickshire.
Fairly small shorebird known for spinning frantically on water to stir up small invertebrates. Note thin, sharp bill. Breeding females are brighter and more contrasting than males: note white throat, reddish stripe on neck, and buffy stripes on back. Breeding males are duller, especially on head and neck. Nonbreeding is much less colorful: gray above and white below with streaky-looking back and black ear patch. Juveniles have blackish upperparts with buffy stripes, and a black ear patch. Breeds on Arctic tundra. Primarily found on the open ocean during migration and winter; also occurs on lakes, especially in western North America. Often in small flocks, but can gather in incredibly large numbers especially during fall migration. In migration mixes with Wilson’s Phalarope on inland lakes; Red-necked is smaller, more compact, and shorter-billed. On the ocean, frequently mixes with Red Phalarope, the only other oceanic shorebird; Red-necked is best distinguished by smaller size, thinner bill, and slightly darker, streakier-looking upperparts.
Red-necked Phalaropes photographed during a Brookline Bird Club pelagic trip from Hyannis, MA to Hydrographer Canyon on 18 July 2015.
Unfortunately, when I was observing this bird from a respectable distance, there was a photographer that kept walking up to the bird while it was trying to feed. It would then swim away from him to another spot. Again he would approach the bird and cause it to move. Repeat. One would think he could have let this out-of-place migrant that had stopped in a suboptimal location feed in peace.