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red phalarope, grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
| Subject: | red phalarope, grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
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Date: 2007:05:18 09:29:05
Camera: Canon EOS 20D (Canon)
F number: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/1600 sec
Focal Length: 400/1
Upload Date: 2017:02:11 21:45:11
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Description
Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicaria, Morro Bay Estuary near the harbor entrance, Morro Bay, CA 18may2007 - Canon 20D 100-400mm IS handheld from a kayak - photo by Mike Baird http://bairdphotos.com/
Date 18 May 2007, 09:29
Source red-phalarope_d_f_5.6_1_1600 s_morro-bay http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/504033168/
Author Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA http://www.flickr.com/people/72825507@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phalaropus_fulicarius_10.jpg
The red phalarope (called grey phalarope in Europe), 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, migrating mainly on oceanic routes and wintering at sea on tropical oceans. Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae, Genus: Phalaropus, Species: Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758).
Synonyms:
Crymophilus fulicarius
Phalaropus fulicaria
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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. |
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