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[National Geographic] Red Phalarope (붉은배지느러미발도요, 북극)
Subject: [National Geographic] Red Phalarope (붉은배지느러미발도요, 북극)
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[National Geographic] Red Phalarope (붉은배지느러미발도요, 북극)


Somewhere in the Arctic
2000
Bates Littlehales

A phalarope, a small shorebird, feeds in the water. This one was photographed from below, so its belly and lobed feet are mirrored on the underside of the surface.

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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.

Phalarope
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