Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
French: Phalarope à bec large German: Thorshühnchen Spanish: Falaropo picogrueso
Other common names: Grey Phalarope
Taxonomy: Tringa Fulicaria Linnaeus, 1758, Hudson Bay, Canada.
Monotypic.
Distribution:
Circumpolar, on coasts of Arctic Ocean, in Alaska, Canada, W Greenland, Iceland, Bear I, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya and C & E Siberia. Winters pelagically mainly off W South America and W & SW Africa; less numerous in America N to California and in CW Atlantic N to North Carolina. |