Red-necked Phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds mostly low Arctic tundra from southern Greenland and Iceland eastward to Kamchatka, Kuril, and Commander islands, and Aleutians through Canada; winters off coasts of Indian Ocean from Arabian Sea eastward through Indonesian Archipelago and in Pacific to New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago and western Mexico to Peru and Galapagos.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Somalia
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Red-necked 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.
