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This Red-necked Phalarope spent several minutes bobbing up and down in the mud building a position of prominence among other feeding shorebirds. In an estuary in the Skagit Valley in northwestern Washington.
Parc Gaetan Montpetit
Sainte-Martine ( Québec )
Barrage Rivière Châteauguay River Damn
Une rareté qui n'est pas resté longtemps...le temps de se gaver et de reprendre la route. Merci à Yves Roy et Michel Paquin, deux pros de renom, de m'avoir avisé de sa présence chez Martine la Sainte. Un vrai marteau piqueur qui n'arrête pas. Dur test pour mes nerfs !
Lumière de fin de journée
A rare visitor that didn't stay long...just enough for a major fill up and back on the road. Thanks to Yves Roy and Michel Paquin, two local pros, for advising me of it's presence in Sainte-Martine. A real jackhammer who never stops. Big test for my nerves !
End of day lighting
Parc Gaetan Montpetit
Sainte-Martine ( Québec )
Barrage Rivière Châteauguay River Damn
Une rareté qui n'est pas resté longtemps...le temps de se gaver et de reprendre la route. Merci à Yves Roy et Michel Paquin, deux pros de renom, de m'avoir avisé de sa présence chez Martine la Sainte. Un vrai marteau piqueur qui n'arrête pas. Dur test pour mes nerfs !
A rare visitor that didn't stay long...just enough for a major fill up and back on the road. Thanks to Yves Roy and Michel Paquin, two local pros, for advising me of it's presence in Sainte-Martine. A real jackhammer who never stops. Big test for my nerves !
The red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
The red-necked phalarope is about 18 cm (7.1 in) in length, with lobed toes and a straight, fine bill. The breeding female is predominantly dark grey above, with a chestnut neck and upper breast, black face and white throat. They have a white wing stripe which helps distinguish this bird from the similar Wilson's phalarope.
The breeding male is a duller version of the female. They have lobed toes to assist with their swimming. Young birds are grey and brown above, with buff underparts and a black patch through the eye. In winter, the plumage is essentially grey above and white below, but the black eyepatch is always present. They have a sharp call described as a whit or twit.
This image was taken in the entrance to the Eyjafjörður on the northern coast of Iceland
Phalaropus lobatus,
Cayucos Creek,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
Phalaropes usually hunt for small life on the surface or just below the surface of the water. But during two days I saw them also going for these very small flying insects, jumping/flying up several inches to a foot or so.
Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, 7.75 in / 19.7 cm. COMMON locally. Nests in grass near tundra ponds. Winters on open ocean along of floating weeds and debris. Immature or transition-plumaged male.
Tundra pond near Utiagvik, Alaska, USA.
©bryanjsmith.
Red Phalaropes flirted in a small tundra pond in front of our group a couple weeks ago in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
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Phalaropus lobatus,
Cayucos Creek,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
Phalaropes usually feed on minute things on the surface of water. A group of about 25 were feeding typically, mostly on the surface, and occasionally one would "jump" up like this for an insect. It wasn't the same bird repeatedly, and occurred seldom enough that I often saw it out of the corner of my eye. Just a few times I happened to be watching a particular phalarope when I could detect it look up, the only minimal warning I got that it was about to jump. They are amazingly fast and frenetic little birds.
From our Utqiagvik, Alaska tour this past summer. One space opened for 2022!
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Vary Rare Visitor To This Area!
New Britain Pa.
Phalaropes reverse the usual sex roles in birds: Females are larger and more colorful than males; females take the lead in courtship, and males are left to incubate the eggs and care for the young. Red-necked Phalaropes nest around arctic tundra pools and winter at sea. During migration they pause on shallow ponds in the west, where they spin in circles, picking at the water's surface. However, most apparently migrate offshore, especially in the east. Despite their small size and delicate shape, they seem perfectly at home on the open ocean.
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