Family Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Least Concern
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
Taxonomy
French: Phalarope à bec étroit German: Odinshühnchen Spanish: Falaropo picofino
Taxonomy:
Tringa tobata
[sic] Linnaeus
, 1758,Hudson Bay, Canada
.Distribution:
Circumpolar, in coastal regions of Arctic Ocean, S to Aleutians and British Is. Winters pelagically off CW South America, in Arabian Sea and from C Indonesia to W Melanesia.
Descriptive notes
18–19 cm; 20–48 g; wingspan 32–41 cm. Smallest phalarope, with needle-like bill (19–23 mm long) and slender neck; toes lobed; wings 20% shorter than... read more
Voice
Song is a warbling or twittering sound, described as a continuous and rapidly repeated “... read more
Habitat
Breeds from coast to interior of Arctic, to lower latitudes than P. fulicarius; on tundra... read more
Food and feeding
During breeding season, chiefly insects, especially dipteran flies and their larvae, as well as beetles, caddisflies, ants and bugs; also... read more
Breeding
Lays Jun in Fennoscandia, or from mid May in North America, with evidence that breeding regimes are advancing in date in response to... read more
Movements
Migrates overland more than P. fulicarius and spends non-breeding season pelagically.... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Total breeding population in Eurasia estimated at 500,000–1,000,000+ birds, with majority in Russia; Nearctic population... read more
Sometimes placed in monospecific genus Lobipes. Monotypic.