Dunlins come from Asia; red-necked phalaropes from Chile; arctic terns from Antarctica; and bar-tailed godwits from New Zealand. ❋ Steve Ersinghaus (2009)
Storm petrels Oceanodroma spp. and phalaropes Phalaropus spp. visit from the ocean to feed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In other news, the avocets and phalaropes are here. ❋ Grouse (2006)
The Bosque on the Rio Grande is dry so can't see the usual Arctic collection of Yellowlegs, other "Tringas", phalaropes etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After a breakfast of stewed phalaropes, whose tender, plover-like flesh was a pleasing change from the hitherto almost unvaried roast sea-fowl diet of the last week, the boat was drawn out upon the level platform near the hut, and removing her side and covering boards, the party held ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
What a story he could tell of his life among the phalaropes and jelly-fishes! ❋ William Beebe (1919)
Fifty-three per cent of the food of twenty-eight northern phalaropes from one locality consisted of mosquito larvae. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Of birds we saw some terns and gulls, and even far out at sea a pretty large number of phalaropes -- the most common kind of bird on the coast of the ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
A large number of seals were visible among the ice, and along with the cormorant a few other birds, principally phalaropes. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
No bird which is not properly web-footed has any business to think itself either true duck or true gull; but as, both in size and habit of life, the larger grebes and phalaropes are entirely aquatic and marine, I shall take out of them into my class of dabchicks, only those which are literally dabblers in habit, and chickens in size. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Gould's introduction: "The generic terms Phalaropus and Lobipes have been instituted for the _fairy-like_ phalaropes." ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Asia, semipalmated sandpipers from South America, and showy female red phalaropes that winter in oceanic waters off South America. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unlike other waders, phalaropes have lobed toes which enable them to swim strongly when on pools or out at sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some of the 40 species of shorebirds that visit the Rainwater Basin include American golden-plovers, white-rumped sandpipers, sanderlings, Wilson's phalaropes, and Hudsonian godwits that migrate each year between Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, and the northernmost brink of Canada and Alaska. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Excerpt match-legged phalaropes, and geese and ducks of every hue, collected for the autumnal flight south. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While the bird of prey is definitely a celebrity, the bigger stars this weekend are two pairs of Wilson's phalaropes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
'It's really hot this year with sandpipers and Wilson's phalaropes,' said Kane County Audubon member Bob Andrini of St. Charles. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Again, he may recollect that with these leaf-footed ducks of the calm and fresh waters, must be associated the leaf-footed or fringe-footed ducks of the sea; -- 'phalaropes,' which by their short wings connect themselves with many clumsy marine creatures, on their way to become seals instead of birds; and that I have kept the two little Titanias out of this class, not merely for their niceness, but because they are not short-winged in any vulgar degree, but seem to have wings about as long as a sandpiper's; -- and indeed I had put the purple sandpiper, ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
