Birds of Guyana - Phalaropus


Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) Male Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Breeding plumage.
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Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) Female Vancouver, Canada Breeding plumage.
Photograph by Nigel from Vancouver Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

The male is less colorful and marked differently than the female (and tends the nest). In non-breeding plumage both sexes are all greyish, unlike the other phalarope species which have black marks. Wilson's Phalarope is the largest phalarope species.

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