Wilson's phalarope / Wilson-Wassertreter (Phalaropus tricolor)

Wikipedia: Wilson's phalarope Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Phalaropus_tricolor_-_breeding_female.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Phalaropus (Phalaropus); Family Shorebirds (Scolopacidae)
Geography: This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, South America, Africa.
General: Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes near the Andes in Argentina.^[2] They are passage migrants through Central America around March/April and again during September/October.^[3] The species is a rare vagrant to western Europe. [more]