Red phalarope

Red phalarope
female in breeding plumage
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Phalaropus
Species:
P. fulicarius
Binomial name
Phalaropus fulicarius
Breeding distribution
Wintering range
Synonyms
  • Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus, 1758
  • Crymophilus fulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Phalaropus fulicaria (lapsus)

The red phalarope or grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, migrates mainly on oceanic routes, wintering at sea on tropical oceans.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Phalaropus fulicarius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22693494A132531581. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22693494A132531581.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.