Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
French: Phalarope à bec étroit German: Odinshühnchen Spanish: Falaropo picofino
Taxonomy: Tringa tobata [sic] Linnaeus, 1758, Hudson Bay, Canada.
Sometimes placed in monospecific genus Lobipes. Monotypic.
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. |
