 Phalarope Family of shore birds, called " Little swimming sandpipers". Phalaropes , small, dainty birds with webbed toes, are the most aquatic of the shore bird groups. They are different in that the female is larger more brightly colored to than the male and is the aggressor in the courtship, while the male builds the nest and incubates the eggs.
Having duck like plumage thick and a they float buoyantly and swim expertly, using the water for food. The Wilson's phalarope is the only family that nests in United States, where it breeds in the marshes of the Great Plains. The northern and red and phalaropes breed in the Arctic and winter in the South Atlantic. |
