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Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope; Falaropo pico grueso; phalarope à bec large)

Synonyms: Phalaropus fulicaria; Phalaropus fulicaria fulicaria; Tringa fulicaria (homotypic); Tringa spec (pro parte)

Wikipedia Abstract

The red phalarope (called grey phalarope in Europe), Phalaropus fulicarius, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, migrating mainly on oceanic routes and wintering at sea on tropical oceans.
View Wikipedia Record: Phalaropus fulicarius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.6819
EDGE Score: 2.81432
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  62 grams
Birth Weight [3]  7.5 grams
Female Weight [6]  62 grams
Male Weight [6]  50 grams
Weight Dimorphism [6]  24 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic, Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Diet - Plants [4]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [8]  4
Clutches / Year [7]  1
Fledging [5]  19 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,200,000
Incubation [7]  19 days
Mating System [3]  Polyandry
Maximum Longevity [10]  6 years
Migration [9]  Intercontinental
Speed [11]  27.738 MPH (12.4 m/s)
Wing Span [11]  17 inches (.42 m)
Female Maturity [5]  0 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Calanus pacificus[12]
Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)[12]
Latreutes fucorum (slender sargassum shrimp)[10]
Litiopa melanostoma (sargassum snail)[10]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Asio flammeus (Short-eared Owl)[12]
Falco columbarius (Merlin)[12]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Tracey, DM, D. Schamel, and J. Dale. 2002. Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). in The Birds of North America, No. 698.(A. Poole and F. Gill, eds). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
♦ 7British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 8Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 9Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 10del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 11Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 12Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0