#red phalarope

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Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius

6/15/2023 Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, California

[autumn--eliot]

Red phalarope and bear berries

[triruntu]

#583, a female red-necked phalarope!

Requests for birds are open, updates happen on Thursdays. [project tag] | [kofi]

[etourvol]

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[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Birds of Deadhorse, Alaska

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Migratory May Day 19: Red-Necked Phalarope

Reference photo by Dorian Anderson

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Red-necked Phalarope

Photo: Mick Thompson

"Phalaropes reverse the usual sex roles in birds: Females are larger and more colorful than males; females take the lead in courtship, and males are left to incubate the eggs and care for the young. Red-necked Phalaropes nest around arctic tundra pools and winter at sea. During migration they pause on shallow ponds in the west, where they spin in circles, picking at the water's surface. However, most apparently migrate offshore, especially in the east. Despite their small size and delicate shape, they seem perfectly at home on the open ocean."

- Audubon Field Guide

[ornithological]

there is/was an adult breeding plumage wilson's phalarope in donegal today 😳😳😳

[dansnaturepictures]

23/09/2023-Some more photos from today of; Collared Dove at home, views at Hill Head and Keyhaven, Eiders and Black-headed Gulls on the walk at Pennington/Keyhaven, the Red-necked Phalarope on Keyhaven lagoon, spider at home and sky including the nice moon at home today. My last post mentions some of the key sightings today with six more of the photos I took today.

[swallowtailed]

[id: photo of a cackling goose and a canada goose standing side by side. the cackling goose looks very much like a smaller version of the canada goose. /end id]

Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong

[emtropi]

[herpsandbirds]

Do you have pics of beautiful female birds ? I feel like the male are getting all the attention :)

Beautiful female birds...

Wilson’s Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor), female, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Chicago, IL, USA

Female phalaropes are more colorful than males, and the females court the males. The drably colored males tend the eggs and nest, after the female lays them.

photograph by Tony Dvorak Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), female, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, near Barrow, Alaska, USA

photograph by Mark A. Chappell

Moluccan Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus), female, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia

The females are more brightly colored than the males, which are green, with bright orange beaks.

photograph by Kow Hao Rui

Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis), male (back) and female (front), family Rostratulidae, Pathum Thani Rice Research Center, Thailand

Females are more colorful than the males. The females court the males, and are polyandrous (having multiple mates). The males incubate the nest and raise young.

photograph by Sani Sansanee & Arkajit Chakraborty

Superb Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus superbus), female, family Columbidae, from Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Indonesia

photograph by Tobias Spaltenberger

[eggtomatosoup]

Another OC pmv, featuring gay people* and a bunch of bird** images!

(some still frames I liked under the cut)

*in yuri civilization, nobody jumps for th

**passenger pigeon, red-necked phalarope

[scottpartridge]

The Red-Necked Phalarope is day 19 of #migratorymay2024 hosted by @migratorymay and @environmentamericas Pictured are all three #phalaropes - Red-Necked, Wilson's and Red. #migratorymay

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Denali Highway, Alaska

Taken June 2023

[best-bird-tournament]

Phalarope (Phalaropus)