#phalaropus tricolor

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Wilson's 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. Wilson's Phalarope is an odd shorebird that swims and spins on prairie marshes. The other two species of phalaropes nest in the Arctic and winter at sea, but Wilson's is a bird of inland waters, nesting mostly on the northern Great Plains. Huge numbers may gather in fall on some salty lakes in the west, such as Mono Lake and Great Salt Lake, before migrating to South America."

- Audubon Field Guide

[birdblues]

Wilson’s Phalarope

[everydayesterday]

A pair of beautiful and distinctive Wilson's Phalarope (she's more beautiful than he, if you ask me—he looks not too dissimilar to other sandpipers) wading along the shore of a pond.

photos by me. 2023-05-13 Outside of Vulcan, AB. cross-posted to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library.

Phalaropus tricolor

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A new variant has been added!

Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) © Louis Agassiz Fuertes

It hatches from black, broad, brown, common, crisp, dark, distinct, east, large, open, orange, other, pale, plain, rare, red, shallow, slender, small, thin, uncommon, western, white, and yellowish eggs.

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[dendroica]

Wilson's phalarope at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge (via USFWS Mountain-Prairie)

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

© Josh Davidson

[podartists]

Phalarope de Wilson (1922-1926) | Allan Brooks (canadiano, 1869-1946)

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Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

© Patrick Dechon