Earth and Space News: Red-Necked Phalaropes, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October Birds

Summary: Red-necked phalaropes, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October birds, are among all the North American wildlife that the National Audubon Society aids.

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Red-necked phalaropes, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October birds, are among all North American wildlife that abide in, access from Canada and Mexico, the United States and the National Audubon Society aids.

The Charadriiformes (from Greek χαραδριός, “stone curlew” [Burhinus oedicnemus, scientifically] via Latin charadrius, “plover” and -fōrmis, “-shaped”) shorebird order member annually breeds from May through August. The Scolopacidae (from Greek σκολόπαξ, “woodcock [Scolopax rustica, scientifically]” via Latin scolopax and Greek -ειδής, “-like” via Latin –idæ) sandpiper family member congregates on moist substrates. Phalaropus lobatus (from Greek φαλαρίς, “coot [Fulica atra, scientifically]” and πούς, “foot” via Latin phalaropus; and Latin lobātus, “lobed”) dwell in grassy, insular or marshy wetlands.

Breeding, incubating and parenting seasons entail grassy or marshy expanses near water bodies or with open pools; marsh-edged lakes; low-lying, river-embedded islands; or small offshore islands.

range map of red-necked phalarope; red=breeding grounds, blue=wintering grounds; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005: Mirko Thiessen (Baldhur), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Red-necked phalaropes, figured taxonomically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), fashion their nests, not far from open water, in grass tussocks or wet sedge.

Each nest, always single-brooded, sometimes second-brooded, gets three to four oval to pyriform (from Latin pyrum, “a pear” and -fōrmis, “shaped” via pyriformis), semi-glossy, smooth eggs. The grass-lined, grass-roofed, grass-tussock nest near open water holds black- and black-brown-blotched, specked, spotted and purple-white-marked, green, olive-buff, olive-white, 1.18-inch- (30-millimeter-) long, 0.83-inch- (21-millimeter-) wide eggs. Nest-building involves both fathers- and mothers-to-be even as only the former incubates, for 18 to 20 days, his mate’s eggs, laid at 1- to 2-day intervals.

Male red-necked phalaropes journey as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October birds southward, to join female red-necked phalaropes who journeyed there two to five months earlier.

two red-necked phalarope eggs from the same spawn collected in Iceland June 9, 1925; Collection Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut (Oct. 18, 1920-March 17, 2007), Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT), Jardin des Plantes de Toulouse, quartier de Busca-Montplaisir, Toulouse center, Haute-Garonne department, Occitania region, southwest France: Roger Culos (Ercé), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

The egg-hatching stage kindles dark-eyed, dark- and fine-billed, dark-crowned precocial (precocious, from Latin praecox, “early-ripened”) nestlings with minimally whitened orbital areas dark-spotted from eye to bill.

Newborn red-necked phalarope nestlings log downy buff bodies with black-gray bills; gray-white legs; gray-white undersides; white-yellow to yellow-buff necks and throats; and yellow-, yellow-white-, triple-streaked backs. Their fathers manage all mealtimes, all nest care, all nestling instruction through direct, fast flight with rapid wingbeats and through self-feeding within 18 to 22 days. Annelid worms, ants, beetles, caddisflies, dipteran flies, seeds, snails and such aquatic insect larvae as mosquitoes nourish all red-necked phalaropes in Arctic, near-Arctic, freshwater, breeding habitats.

Crustaceans, jellyfish, tiny fish and zooplankton such as calanoid copepods and euphausiids offer all red-necked phalaropes as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October birds open-water meals.

Juvenile red-necked phalaropes present dark bills and eyes; dark caps and cheek patches; white throats and underparts; and buff-striped, dull white-lined black backs; and dark upperparts.

Breeding females quarter black, needle-like bills; black eyes below white eye patches; black-gray crowns and faces; white throats; rusty-necked, rust-breasted white underparts; and dusky-streaked white flanks. They reveal dark upperparts with buff- or rust-edged feathers and dark wings whose undersides retain one narrow, white stripe on each side of the lower abdomen. Mature red-necked phalaropes secure 7- to 7.5-inch- (18- to 19-centimeter-) long, 1.06- to 1.56-ounce (30- to 45-gram) bodies with 12.5- to 16-inch (32- to 41-centimeter) wingspans.

Red-necked phalaropes as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October birds transmit hard, squeaky kit and pwit flight calls whose variable vocalizations breeding- and non-breeding territories trigger.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) under synonym of Hyperborean phalarope (Phalaropus hyperboreus); male (left) and female (center) in adult spring plumage and young (right) in autumnal plumage; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, 1834; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 43, Plate CCXV: No copyright--United States (NoC--US), via ULS (University of Pittsburgh Library System) @ https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Aaud0215; Birds of America, vol. V (1842), No. 68, Plate 340, opposite page 295, Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40419966; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8589071203/

red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) on Saint Paul Island (Russian: Остров Святого Павла, Ostrov Svyatogo Pavla), northernmost Pribilof Islands (Aleut: Amiq; Russian: Острова Прибылова, Ostrova Pribylova), insular southwestern Alaska, Bering Sea (Russian: Бе́рингово мо́ре, Béringovo móre); photo credit, Ryan Deregnier/USFWS: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-necked_phalarope_on_St._Paul_by_Ryan_Deregnier_USFWS.jpg; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge via Facebook Feb. 12, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaMaritimeNationalWildlifeRefuge/posts/2266441663376730/; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge via Facebook Feb. 12, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaMaritimeNationalWildlifeRefuge/photos/a.460515650636016/2266441663376730/

range map of red-necked phalarope; red=breeding grounds, blue=wintering grounds; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005: Mirko Thiessen (Baldhur), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phalaropus_lobatus_distribution.png

red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) with yellow band on leg, held by biologist at Utqiagvik (Inupiaq: Utqiaġvik; formerly Barrow), North Slope Borough, northwestern coastal Alaska, Arctic Circle; Thursday, July 8, 2021, 16:17:31, photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021-07-08_A_newly_banded_Red-necked_Phalarope_chick.jpg; Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWSAlaska), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfws_alaska/51357515518/

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