Red necked phalarope

                                                                Red-necked Phalarope
What does a Red-necked phalarope?

At sea, red-necked phalaropes feed on plankton and tiny fish caught at the surface, and parasitic lice pecked from the skin of whales, minnows and other small fish, crayfish, tadpoles, salamanders, insects and aquatic plants. During the breeding season, they forage in and around shallow water, eating plant matter and invertebrates, such as insects, molluscs and crustaceans.

What does a red-necked phalarope breed with?

After breeding, red-necked phalaropes migrate to the Arabian Sea and seas off New Guinea and Indonesia, and Ecuador and Peru. On migration, they are often seen on small pools near coasts and are sometimes blown onshore by storms.

What is a red-necked phalarope?

The red-necked 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.

Red-necked phalarope eggs?

Red-necked Phalaropes have reversed roles. Females are larger and more colourful than males. They compete to win mates, and the males do all the incubation and care for the young. They often form one-on-one pairs, but females sometimes move on to a new male immediately after mating and laying eggs with another.

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