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Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
Subject: | Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
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Date: 2005:02:26 00:35:20
Upload Date: 2005:02:26 00:36:51
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Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A red-necked phalarope ( Phalaropus lobatus) wades in shallow waters near shore. Pelagic in habit, this shorebird spends most of its time at sea. Phalaropes employ the unique feeding strategy of spinning-in-place on the water surface, creating a whirlpool beneath themselves that pulls up bottom-dwelling larvae for them to feed on.
Image ID: nerr0813, NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Collection
Location: Near Homer, Alaska
Credit: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
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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. |
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