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Phalaropus tricolor, Wilson's phalarope

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Phalaropus tricolor   Vieillot, 1819

Wilson's phalarope
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Others; freshwater.  Polar

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Northeast Pacific, Northwest Atlantic and Antarctic Atlantic: St Pierre Miquelon and South Orkney.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Not marine in life history or distribution. Aquatic. Tongue and palate adapted to filtering sea water out before ingesting its prey (Ref.87784). Estuarine (Ref. 116102). Not marine in life history or distribution; aquatic; on saline lakes in the interior of North and South America during nonbreeding season. Tongue and palate adapted to filtering sea water out before ingesting its prey. Migration follow inland routes southward through central Canada and the western United States, then westward and southwestward to the Pacific where they join Red Phalaropes (Phalaropus fulicarius) heading south offshore from British Columbia to South America (Ref. 87784). Found on beach and shoreline, bay and nearshore (Ref. 116102).

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Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE). 2011. (Ref. 87340)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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