Red Phalarope
Phalaropus fulicarius(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Red Phalarope
The Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds mostly high Arctic marshy tundra from southern Greenland and Iceland eastward across Siberia to northern Alaska and northern Canada including southern tier of Arctic Canadian islands; winters off coasts from California to southern Chile, Atlantic USA to northern Florida, and off western AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phalaropus fulicarius
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red Phalarope
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tringa fulicaria
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Hudson Bay, ex Edwards, pi. 142.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.148
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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