#0852 · 🐦 birds

Wilson's Phalarope

🇳🇱 Grote Franjepoot ·Phalaropus tricolor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Wilson's phalarope ( Phalaropus tricolor ) is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes near the Andes in Argentina. They are passage migrants through Central America around March/April and again during September/October. The species is a rare vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 10iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,699iNaturalist observations
weight 68.1 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).