Meaning | small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics. |
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Member of | Phalaropidae, family Phalaropidae | phalaropes |
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Narrower | Wilson's phalarope, Steganopus tricolor | Breeds on the northern great plains of Canada |
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northern phalarope, Lobipes lobatus | Breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds |
red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius | phalarope of northern oceans and lakes |
Broader | shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird | Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries |
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Spanish | falaropo, phalaropus |
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Catalan | escuraflascons |
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