Red Phalarope
Phalaropus fulicarius
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The red phalarope or grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, migrates mainly on oceanic routes, wintering at sea on tropical oceans.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds mostly high Arctic marshy tundra from southern Greenland and Iceland eastward across Siberia to northern Alaska and northern Canada including southern tier of Arctic Canadian islands; winters off coasts from California to southern Chile, Atlantic USA to northern Florida, and off western Africa.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Argentina
- Austria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Finland
- Gambia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Oman
- Peru
- Poland
- Russia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- United States
- Western Sahara
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Red phalarope
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
