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#0757 · 🐦 birds

Red-necked Phalarope

🇳🇱 Grauwe Franjepoot ·Phalaropus lobatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Red-necked Phalarope, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-necked phalarope ( Phalaropus lobatus ) is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.

base stats

  • NL sightings 46iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 17,651iNaturalist observations
  • weight 39 gadult, up to
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • Spotted 46 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 17,651 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs only about 39 g.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Red-necked Phalarope
Nederlands
Grauwe Franjepoot
scientific name
Phalaropus lobatus
class
Aves
order
Charadriiformes
family
Scolopacidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
46
sightings in Europe
2,900
sightings worldwide
17,651
GBIF records in NL
26,427
weight
39 g
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Scolopacidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 3959, Wikidata Q206840, GBIF 5739290, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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