Red-necked Phalarope

Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, is a wader that breeds across North America and the Palearctic, from low Arctic and subarctic tundra to alpine tundra. Its range includes Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, northern Scandinavia, Russia to Kamchatka, the Kuril and Commander islands, the Aleutians, and Arctic and subarctic Alaska and Canada. Outside the breeding season it moves to tropical and subtropical coastal waters and seas, including the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Bay of Bengal, parts of the Indonesian archipelago, waters off northern and western New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Pacific coasts from western Mexico and Central America to Peru and the Galápagos. It is marked by lobed toes and a straight, fine bill.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

North America, Palearctic: mostly low Arctic to subarctic Holarctic tundra and alpine tundra: s Greenland, Iceland, Scotland (rare), n Scandinavia, and Arctic and subarctic Russia to Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is.; Aleutian Is., Arctic and subarctic Alaska and Canada

Nonbreeding range

to tropical and subtropical coastal waters and coasts: Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Bay of Bengal; seas of Indonesian Arch., off n, w New Guinea and Bismarck Arch.; and se North Pacific coasts of w Mexico and Central America to Peru and Galápagos