Red-necked Phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Red-necked Phalarope
The Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) 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 low Arctic tundra from southern Greenland and Iceland eastward to Kamchatka, Kuril, and Commander islands, and Aleutians through Canada; winters off coasts of Indian Ocean from Arabian Sea eastward through Indonesian Archipelago and in Pacific to New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago and western Mexico to Peru and GalapagosRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phalaropus lobatus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tringa tobata
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Hudson Bay, ex Edwards, pi. 143.
- 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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