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    (c) Paul Cools, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) samzhang, all rights reserved

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    (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Paul Cools, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Blake Matheson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Red Phalarope

Phalaropus fulicarius

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About

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.

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