The Wilson’s Phalarope is a very attractive rather small wader. Phalaropes have the unique feeding method of spinning in shallow water to stir small invertebrates to the surface and then plucking them up.
They will also walk along the edge of the water like most other peeps.
Classification
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Phalaropus
Species: P. tricolor
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Wilson’s Phalarope - Winter Plumage
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Excellent birding around South Cape May today; Wilson’s Phalarope …
A Wilson’s Phalarope was foraging in the corner closest to the Hawkwatch Platform. Apparently a juv rapidly entering its first basic plumage, the neatly edged blackish wings contrasted sharply with the grey mantle and head. … Read more…
#3 Whooping Crane vs. #14 Wilson’s Phalarope
Once they hatch, the young catch food on their own and are not feed by the adults. The Wilson’s is the largest of the phalaropes but does not swim like the others. Wilson’s Phalaropes face a huge threat from the draining of the wetlands … Read
Wilson’s phalarope breeds inland in the southern parts of North America. The breed-in distribution of the other two species is circumpolar, the Gray (or Red) phalarope in the high arctic tundra and boreal zone and the Red-necked … Read more…
Falaropo Tricolor – Wilson’s Phalarope
Phalaropus tricolor ©Juan Sagardía. Adjuntamos fotografías y datos de un ejemplar de esta especie efectuados por Francisco Javier García Vargas, Antonio Unquiles Cobo y Juan Sagardía, integrantes del equipo de Birding in Lanzarote. … Read more…
