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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Reykjavík: A Crime Story Airs Walking Tours, the Third From 1976

Summary: Reykjavík: A Crime Story, Icelandic standalone novel by authors Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir, airs walking tours, the third from 1976.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

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A Kópavogur apartment-block flat (from Old Norse rejkr vík, “smoke bay”; kópr vágr, “seal[-]pup bay”) accounts for the only setting in Reykjavík: A Crime Story. The Capitol Region acknowledges it as a township independent from the capital city and as the country's second-most populated municipality; Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 (7 shtator 2010), 17:10, image of Kópavogsdalur (Kópavogur Valley), an outdoor and recreational area for residents of Kópavogur, Capitol Region, southwestern Iceland: Ogkelt, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Reykjavík: A Crime Story, anglicized in 2023 by Victoria Cribb from the Icelandic standalone novel authored in 2022 by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir, airs walking tours, the third tour from 1976.

Eiríkur (from Old Norse einn, “one” and ríkr, “distinguished, mighty, rich”) bosses Kristján Kristjánsson (from Greek χρῑστός, “the anointed one”; and Latin -iānus, “-like”) into television-intervieweeing. Detective Kristjánsson converses with ex-television news reader, present Vísir (from Old Norse vísir, “leader”) newspaper editor and journalist Ólafur (from Old Norse āi lėif, “great-grandfather inheritance”). The third walking tour dates from Saturday, Aug. 7, 1976, and physically does not depart from the flat where the 34-year-old detective dwells with his wife.

Eliminating four suspects in the Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case engrosses Reykjavík outside the Kópavogur flat (from Old Norse rejkr vík, “smoke bay”; kópr vágr, “seal[-]pup bay”).

Perhaps Kristján (from Greek χρῑστός, “the anointed one”; and Latin -iānus, “-like”) acquired his Kópavogur apartment-block flat in that independent township's Smárahverfi (perhaps from archaic Danish smære, "clover" or perhaps from Irish seamair via archaic Icelandic smære and Icelandic smára, "clover, shamrock, white clover [Trifolium repens]"; and Old Norse hverfi, "cluster of farms") neighborhood; Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 (7 shtator 2010), image of Smárahverfi neighborhood in Kópavogur, Capitol Region, southwestern Iceland: Ogkelt, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Dark-haired, gray-suited, 30-plus-year-old Ólafur focuses upon Lára Marteinsdóttir (from Latin laurus, “laurel tree”]”; Mārs -īnus, “[war-god] Mars pertaining” via Mārtīnus; and from Old Norse dóttir, "daughter").

Ólafur guards the front-cover weekend-edition story for the 20-year-old unsolved disappearance over respective 2.5- and 1.5-year-old disappearances Saturday, Jan. 26, 1974, and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1974. Iceland has black-and-white television since 1966, such that Kristján hopes for an interview end within one hour, in time for Columbo crime drama series (1968, 1971-1978). His interview interests Kristján less than itineraries outside his apartment-block inhabitation with wife Gudrún Reykdal (from Old Norse guð rún reykr dal, “god rune smoke valley”).

The third, 1976 walking tour, of walking tours from Reykjavík: A Crime Story, journeys no further than an apartment-block flat because Kristján jettisons some jarring facts.

Perhaps Kristján acquired his Kópavogur apartment-block flat in that independent township's Fossvogur (from Old Norse foss vogur, "waterfall farm-cluster"), north neighborhood; Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 (7 shtator 2010), 11:58, image of northern part of Kópavogur, Capitol Region, southwestern Iceland: Ogkelt, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Kristján keeps to himself Högni Eyfjörd (from Old Norse hagi, “pasture” or hagr, “skilled”; Old Norse ey, “island”; and Icelandic fjörður, “deep, inter-cliff, long, narrow inlet”).

Leaving, with her luggage, summer lodgings on Videy Island (from Icelandic viður oy, “wood island” via Viðey) lets Kristján look at Lára as alive unspecifiedly elsewhere. The aforementioned mulling means that the event maintains crime-free status as a missing-person, not as a murder, investigation and that a tip may not be mentioned. No private and no professional properties in the Eyfjörd name, from the latter’s developer career and “good family” (Reykjavík:37) connections, therefore number among investigatable crime scenes.

The third, 1976 tour of walking tours organizable from Reykjavík: A Crime Story therefore occasions only one Kópavogur occurrence that offers quite a few imagined outcomes.

Perhaps Kristján acquired his Kópavogur apartment-block flat in that independent township's Kársnes (from Old Norse kárr, "curly [hair], obstinate, pugnacious, reluctant"; and nes, "headland"), west district; Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 (7 shtator 2010), 17:11, image of the Kársnes district of Kópavogur, Capitol Region, southwestern Iceland: Ogkelt, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Partial pertinent-evidence presentations pre-empt pursuing Óttar Óskarsson and Ólöf Blöndal (from Old Norse ótti -arr, “dread-army”; óss geirr, “god spear”; ái lėif blanda, “ancestor inheritance blend”).

Óttar qualifies, already in his “early thirties” (Reykjavík:44), as economically, politically and socially prominent businessman, consul, lawyer, public debater and University of Iceland contract law teacher. Ólöf realizes prominent political, socio-economic descent from such “prominent citizens” as government ministers, members of parliament and wealthy wholesalers “who would never hurt a soul” (Reykjavík:45). No police search scours either the detached house sheltering them in central Reykjavík or their Videy farmhouse last sheltering Lára, beginning May to Aug. 3, 1956.

The third, 1976 tour, of walking tours triggered by Reykjavík: A Crime Story, taxes its trekkers physically less even as it perhaps taxes them mentally more.

Kristján acts out his Christian faith more spiritually than religiously. Perhaps he actualizes that faith by adapting to a hillside abode, where he adds Kópavogskirkja (from Old Norse kópr vágr kirkja, “seal[-]pup bay [Christian] church") services atop Kársnes district's Borgarholt (from Old Norse borg, "castle, city, fortified place, town" via Icelandic borg, "castle, city, rocky hill with clifs"; and holt, "hillock"). He addresses praying “to a higher power almost every evening, and that prayer was always the same that the riddle of Lára’s fate would be solved” (Reykjavík:42); 2010-09-07, image of Kópavogskirkja (Kópavogur Church), Borgarholt hill, Kársnes district, Kópavogur, Capitol Region, southwestern Iceland: Ogkelt, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 July 2023. "White Death Avails English Readers of Hvítidauði by Ragnar Jónasson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/white-death-avails-english-readers-of_033263944.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 July 2023. "A Prime Minister and a Thriller Novelist Authored the Book Reykjavík." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-prime-minister-and-thriller-novelist.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 June 2023. "Winterkill, Anglicized from Vetrarmein, Airs Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/winterkill-anglicized-from-vetrarmein.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 June 2023. "Hot Chocolate Awes Easter Crowds in Winterkill, Anglicized From Sigló." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/hot-chocolate-awes-easter-crowds-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 June 2023. "Quentin Bates Adds a Translation to Outside, Anglicized From Úti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/quentin-bates-adds-translation-to.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 June 2023. "Winterkill Anglicizes What Jean-Christophe Salaün Frenchified as Sigló." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 May 2023. "David Warriner Anglicizes Winterkill From Vetrarmein By Way of Sigló." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/david-warriner-anglicizes-winterkill.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 May 2023. "Perhaps Falls Are Jumps in Winterkill, Anglicized From Vetrarmein." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/perhaps-falls-are-jumps-in-winterkill.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 May 2023. "Harborside Rooms and Violent Deaths Add Stayover Traffic to Winterkill." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/harborside-rooms-and-violent-deaths-add.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 May 2023. "Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/whiteout-anglicized-from-andkor.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 May 2023. "Flaming Coffee Sambuca Acts as a Christmas Toast in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/flaming-coffee-sambuca-acts-as.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 April 2023. "Axel Sveinsson Lighthouses Add Jobs and Attract Tourists in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/axel-sveinsson-lighthouses-add-jobs-and.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 April 2023. "Whiteout Admits Northern Landscapes Akin to Jón Stefánsson Paintings." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/whiteout-admits-northern-landscapes.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 April 2023. "Jóhann Jónsson Adds Autumn Flowers to Andköf, Anglicized as Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/johann-jonsson-adds-autumn-flowers-to.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 April 2023. "A Baby Arrives Auspiciously in Whiteout, Anglicized From Andkör." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-baby-arrives-auspiciously-in-whiteout.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 March 2023. "A Northern Lighthouse Inadvertently Admits Adverse Traffic in Whiteout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-northern-lighthouse-inadvertently.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/rupture-anglicized-from-rof-archives.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 March 2023. "Coffees Appear Black or Milky, Poisoned or Sugary in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/coffees-appear-black-or-milky-poisoned.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 March 2023. "Rupture, Anglicized From Rof, Acknowledges Ásgrímur Jónsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/rupture-anglicized-from-rof.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 February 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Acquaints Us With Adverse Areas in Rupture." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/thorleifur-ragnar-jonasson-acquaints-us.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 February 2023. "Past Actions Affect Present Anxieties in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/past-actions-affect-present-anxieties.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 February 2023. "Tunnels Accelerate Justice and Traffic in Rupture, Anglicized From Rof." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/tunnels-accelerate-justice-and-traffic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 February 2023. "Icelandic Names and Words Are in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/icelandic-names-and-words-are-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 31 January 2023. "Biscuits, Burgers, Chips, Dried Fish Appeal to Police in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/biscuits-burgers-chips-dried-fish.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 24 January 2023. "Thorleifur Ragnar Jónasson Accuratizes Volcanic Glaciers in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/thorleifur-ragnar-jonasson-accuratizes.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 17 January 2023. "Jón Gudmundsson the Learned Accounts for Poetic Advice in Blackout." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/jon-gudmundsson-learned-accounts-for.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 January 2023. "Seven Are Taciturn About Death in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/seven-are-taciturn-about-death-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 January 2023. "Summerhouses Add to Crime Rates in Blackout, Anglicized From Myrknætti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/summerhouses-add-to-crime-rates-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends a Poem by Freysteinn Gunnarsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/nattblinda-as-nightblind-appends-poem.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 December 2022. "Nattblinda, as Nightblind, Appends Spring Returns to the Valley." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/nattblinda-as-nightblind-appends-spring.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 December 2022. "Nattblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/nattblinda-anglicized-nightblind.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 December 2022. "Náttblinda, Anglicized Nightblind, Admits Fresh Buns, Coffee and Pizza." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/nattblinda-anglicized-nightblind-admits.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 November 2022. "Thórbergur Thórdarson Assuages Anxiety in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/thorbergur-thordarson-assuages-anxiety.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 November 2022. "Thorsteinn Jónsson Advises All Are Astray in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/thorsteinn-jonsson-advises-all-are.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 November 2022. "Abandoned Areas Are Awful for New Hires in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/abandoned-areas-are-awful-for-new-hires.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 November 2022. "Active Tunnels Adjust to Awful Weather in Nattblinda, as Nightblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/active-tunnels-adjust-to-awful-weather.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 November 2022. "Snjóblinda, Anglicized Snowblind, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/snjoblinda-anglicized-snowblind.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 October 2022. "Indian Rice Affirms Area Affluence in Snjóblinda, Anglicized Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/indian-rice-affirms-area-affluence-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 October 2022. "Kjarval Adorns a Retired Diplomat’s Walls in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/kjarval-adorns-retired-diplomats-walls.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 October 2022. "Gunnlaugur Blöndal Art Assuages Sailors in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/gunnlaugur-blondal-art-assuages-sailors.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 October 2022. "House and Job for Two Years Are Alluring in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/house-and-job-for-two-years-are.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 September 2022. "Locals and Tourists Adore Fish and Theatre in Snjóblinda, as Snowblind." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/09/locals-and-tourists-adore-fish-and.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 September 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Archives Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/09/thorpid-as-girl-who-died-archives.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 September 2022. "Ham and Ptarmigan Are Christmas Meats in Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/09/ham-and-ptarmigan-are-christmas-meats.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 September 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Acquaints Us With Davíd Stefánsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/09/thorpid-as-girl-who-died-acquaints-us.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 August 2022. "Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died, Alludes to Thorsteinn Th. Thorsteinsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/thorpid-as-girl-who-died-alludes-to.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 23 August 2022. "Five Deaths Affect 16 Lives in Thorpid, Anglicized The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/five-deaths-affect-16-lives-in-thorpid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 16 August 2022. "Ring Road Accesses Northeast Iceland for Thorpid, as The Girl Who Died." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/ring-road-accesses-northeast-iceland.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 August 2022. "Outside, Anglicized From Úti, Appends Party of Two." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/outside-anglicized-from-uti-appends.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 August 2022. "Outside, Anglicized From Úti, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/outside-anglicized-from-uti-accumulates.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 July 2022. "Icelandic Rock Ptarmigans Avoid Blizzards and Hunters in Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/07/icelandic-rock-ptarmigans-avoid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 July 2022. "Veröld Accepted Icelandic Standalone Novel Úti, Anglicized Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/07/verold-accepted-icelandic-standalone.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 July 2022. "Victoria Cribb Anglicizes Icelandic Standalone Novel Úti Into Outside." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/07/victoria-cribb-anglicizes-icelandic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 July 2022. "Four Friends and One Enemy Are Indoors in Outside, Anglicized from Úti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/07/four-friends-and-one-enemy-are-indoors.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 June 2022. "Adverse Weather Afflicts East Iceland in Outside, Anglicized From Úti." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/adverse-weather-afflicts-east-iceland.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 June 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Appends The Silence of the Falling Snow." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/mistur-anglicized-mist-appends-silence.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 June 2022. "Mistur, as The Mist, Appends Christmas Apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/mistur-as-mist-appends-christmas-apples.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 June 2022. "Mistur, anglicized The Mist, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/mistur-anglicized-mist-accumulates.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 31 May 2022. "Hulda Ate Icelandic Food Christmas Eve in Mistur, Anglicized The Mist." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/hulda-ate-icelandic-food-christmas-eve.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 24 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized The Mist, Acknowledges Halldór Laxness at Christmas." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/mistur-anglicized-mist-acknowledges.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 17 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Acquaints Us With Olaf Olafsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/mistur-anglicized-as-mist-acquaints-us.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 May 2022. "Accidental and Violent Deaths Aggrieve Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/accidental-and-violent-deaths-aggrieve.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 May 2022. "Mistur, Anglicized as The Mist, Angles Ring Road Along Coastal Iceland." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/mistur-anglicized-as-mist-angles-ring.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized The Island, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/04/drungi-anglicized-island-accumulates.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized The Island, Allows Icelandic Cuisine Takeout Pizza." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/04/drungi-anglicized-island-allows.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized as The Island, Acquaints Us With Bessastadir." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/04/drungi-anglicized-as-island-acquaints.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 April 2022. "Drungi, Anglicized as The Island, Asks What Einar Benediktsson Avers." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/04/drungi-anglicized-as-island-asks-what.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 March 2022. "Seven Deaths Afflict One Detective in Drungi, Anglicized as The Island." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/seven-deaths-afflict-one-detective-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2022. "Fjords and Isles Are Accessible in Drungi, Anglicized as The Island." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/fjords-and-isles-are-accessible-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2022. "Dimma, Anglicized The Darkness, Accumulates Icelandic Names and Words." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/dimma-anglicized-darkness-accumulates.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 March 2022. "Icelandic Cuisine Americanizes Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/icelandic-cuisine-americanizes-dimma.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 March 2022. "Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness, Accesses Bishop Jón Vídalín For Us." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/dimma-anglicized-as-darkness-accesses.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 February 2022. "Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness, Acquaints Us With Tomás Gudmundsson." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 15 February 2022. "Not All Are Accounted For in Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 8 February 2022. "Driving and Walking Tours Acquit Dimma, Anglicized as The Darkness." Earth and Space News. Tuesday.
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Monday, October 2, 2023

Thomas Schippers Had Met Opera Debut at 25 and Conducted 27 Met Operas

Summary: American conductor Thomas Schippers made his Met Opera debut at the age of 25 and conducted 27 operas in 342 performances during his two Met decades.

Gifted American conductor Thomas Schippers composed music, virtuously played piano and organ, painted and enjoyed playing bridge: FORNASETTI, via Facebook Oct. 11, 2018

American conductor Thomas Schippers made his Met Opera debut at the age of 25 and, during his two decades at the opera house, filled his Met Opera portfolio with 27 operas and 342 performances.

Thomas Schippers (March 9, 1930-Dec. 16, 1977) was born in Kalamazoo, the county seat of southwestern Michigan's Kalamazoo County and a major city in the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area. His parents were Peter Schippers (March 4, 1902-May 30, 1986) and Agnes Nanninga Schippers (July 14, 1903-December 1986). His father distributed kitchen appliances manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Corpoation, according to "Music: Oh! to Be 30 at Last," published in the Monday, Feb. 15, 1960, issue of Time magazine.

Although Thomas came from a non-musical family, he noted the fashion of having "at least one piano in the house" during his childhood. His family's home, however, possessed three pianos, which were kept locked. At the age of two or three, he managed to unlock one and thereby began precociously playing the piano, according to his Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1962, interview with public radio writer Patricia "Pat" Marx (born April 26, 1938; married since Aug. 8, 1970, to "Pentagon Papers" activist Daniel Ellsberg [April 7, 1931-June 16, 2023]). Patricia Marx Interviews was featured as a series on WNYC and other public radio stations from 1961 to 1969.

Thomas's precocious commitment to music inspired his switching churches at age eight. He left his family's Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church of Kalamazoo for the "good boys' choir" at St. Luke's Episcopal Church ("Music" Oh! to Be 30 at Last").

Teen-aged Thomas relocated to Philadelphia to study piano at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1944 to 1945. He finessed his piano artistry via private lessons with American classical pianist and piano pedagogue Olga Samaroff (born Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper; Aug. 8, 1880-May 17, 1948) in 1946 and 1947. Thomas attended Yale University, where he studied composition with German and American composer, conductor and musical theorist Paul Hindemith (Nov. 16, 1895-Dec. 28, 1963), according to Jewish Russian-born American musicologist, composer, conductor and pianist Nicolas Slonimsky (Russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Сло́нимский, Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy; April 27 [O.S. April 15] 1894-Dec. 25, 1995) in The Concise Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1988: page 1104).

Teen-aged Thomas cultivated his musical career by moving to New York in 1948 to accept a position as organist at Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church. On Wednesday, March 15, 1950, 20-year-old Thomas conducted the New York premiere of The Consul by Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911-Feb. 1, 2007) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District. On Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24, 1951, at 9:30 p.m., Hallmark Hall of Fame debuted on NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) with Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors as the series' premiere special production. Twenty-one-year-old Thomas conducted the first opera especially commissioned for television.

Four years later, the 25-year-old musician made his Met Opera conducting debut during the 1955-1956 season in double bill performances of the opera company's premiere of a ballet and debut of a new production of a Donizetti opera. On Friday, Dec. 23, 1955, the Metropolitan Opera premiered Soirée, a ballet choreographed by Philadelphia-born American choreographer and dancer Zachary Solov (Feb. 15, 1923-Nov. 6, 2004) to music by 20th-century composer, conductor and pianist Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (Nov. 22,1913-Dec. 4, 1976), and 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868). In tandem with the premiered ballet, Met Opera debuted a new production of Don Pasquale by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) in the opera company's 42nd performance of the Rome-set opera buffa ("comic opera").

After his Met Opera debut in the 1955-1956 season, Maestro Schippers continued to conduct with the opera company for almost two decades. He unknowingly gave his last performance Monday, Nov. 5, 1975, according to the Metropolitan Opera Archives database's May 2014 report, "A list of every performer (singer, dancer, or conductor) with one hundred performances or more." Illness, initially diagnosed as viral pneumonia, necessitated his cancellation of conductorships at the Metropolitan Opera.

Thomas Schippers Met Opera portfolio comprised conductorship of at least 27 operas and of 342 performances between winter 1955-1956 and autumn 1975-1976.

Nineteenth-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) qualified as the most represented composer in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted nine Verdian operas at the Metropolitan Opera: Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Ernani, La Forza del Destino, Luisa Miller, Nabucco, Otello and Il Trovatore.

Nineteenth-century German Romantic era composer and librettist Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-Feb. 13, 1883) placed as the second most represented composer in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted three Wagnerian operas: Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868), late Romantic and early modern German composer Richard Georg Strauss (June 11, 1864-Sep. 8, 1949) and Russian late Romantic era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840-Nov. 6, 1893) tied for placement as the third most represented composers in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth); Strauss's Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.

Thomas Schippers conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966, at the Metropolitan Opera; Met Opera specifically commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera as the inaugural opera for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Upper West Side Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: WCPE TheClassicalStation, via Facebook March 9, 2019

Maestro Schippers conducted the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by his friend, American baritone, composer, conductor and pianist Samuel Barber (born Samuel Osmond Barber II; March 9, 1910-Jan. 23, 1981), on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966. The three-act opera about history's famous ill-fated lovers, Ancient Egypt's last queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Cleopatra VII Philopator (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopatra Philopator; 69-Aug. 10 or 12, 30 BCE), and Roman militarian and politician Marcus Antonius "Mark Antony" (Jan. 14, 83-Aug. 1, 30 BCE), was based on the same-named tragedy by Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare (bapt. April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera specifically as the inaugural performance for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, located at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

The Kalamazooian maestro added Gian Carlo Menotti to his Met Opera repertoire on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1964, with his conductorship of the United States premiere of The Last Savage, the English version of his friend's satiric, three-act Italian opera, L'ultimo selvaggio. Almost six years earlier, in 1958, Thomas Schippers and Gian Carlo Menotti had partnered to found Il Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds), also known as the Spoleto Festival, the estival festival held annually in Central Italy's Spoleto (Latin: Spoletum), the ancient city on a foothill of the Apennines (Latin: Appenninus or Apenninus Mons; Italian: Appennini) in Umbria region's northern province, Perugia (Italian: Provincia di Perugia).

Met Opera's debut of the original Russian-language libretto of Boris Godunov by Russian Romantic Era composer Modest Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839-March 28, 1881) in the 1974-1975 season added another first to Maestro Schippers' conductorial career at the opera company. Prior to the 1974-1975 season, Met Opera had used Italian, Russian-Italian and English librettos. Russian operatic bass Fyodor Chaliapin (Feb. 13, 1873-April 12, 1938) had sung the lead role in Russian, while the cast and chorus sang in Italian, in all 38 of his Boris performances at Met Opera. Ukrainian, later naturalized (1931) American, operatic bass Alexander Kipnis (Feb. 13 [Old Style: Feb. 1], 1891-May 14, 1978) had followed Chaliapin's example by injecting a Russian-singing Boris into the Italian libretto for his four appearances in the 1942-1943 season.

Five classic operas by 19th- and early 20th century composers completed the maestro's Met Opera repertoire. He conducted Carmen by French Romantic Era composer Georges Bizet (Oct. 25, 1838-June 3, 1875); L'Elisir d'Amore by Italian composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848); Manon by French Romantic Era composer Jules Massenet (May 12, 1842-Aug. 13, 1912); Les Contes d’Hoffmann by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819-Oct. 5, 1880); and La Bohème by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).

Gifted American musician Thomas Schippers, whose accomplishments included conducting 27 operas at the Metropolitan Opera, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 1977, at 7:55 p.m., at his home at 550 Park Avenue and East 62nd Street, Lenox Hill, Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District; Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 09:18, image of Manhattan's 550 Park Avenue at East 62nd Street: Deans Charbal (Deansfa), CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

The cigarette-smoking Kalamazooian maestro was under the care of Dr. William George Cahan (Aug. 2, 1914-Oct. 7, 2001), pulmonary carcinoma specialist at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), from March 1977 until his death at 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, 1977. He passed away at home, 550 Park Avenue, in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District, according to American pianist and writer Nancy Pasawicz Spada, wife of Italian musicologist and pianist Pietro Spada (July 29, 1935-Dec. 31, 2022), in "Thomas Schippers in Cincinnati: A Forgotten Episode in the Life of a Conductor Renowned for Opera of a Conductor Renowned for Opera" (page 21), published in the February 2023 issue of Music & Musical Performance.

Thomas Schippers' last will and testament specified no funeral, cremation at the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, northern Hudson County, Gateway Region, northeastern New Jersey, and scattering of his ashes in the Bosco Sacro di Monteluco (Sacred Wood of Monteluco), a frazione (borough) of Spoleto, as explained by Margot S. Melniker (March 17, 1921-Oct. 22, 2019), Executive Administrator for Maestro Schippers and co-executor of his will, to Nancy Spada. The maestro's first two stipulations were honored.

Thomas Schippers' third stipulation was observed partially. Upon arrival in Spoleto, Melniker was informed by Spoleto's mayor that the city of Spoleto wished to honor the Maestro by setting his ashes in a crypt carved into the wall of the Piazza del Duomo, the square where the Maestro had conducted annual performances for the Festival of the Two Worlds. Consequently, part of the Maestro's ashes were strewn at Monteluco by Schippers' acquaintance, Dutch-born U.S. citizen, art collector and financier Jacques Sarlie (Aug. 19, 1915-Dec. 15, 1988), in the company of Margot Melniker, Gian Carlo Menotti and Countess Wally Toscanini Castelbarco (Jan. 16, 1900-May 8, 1991), second of four children born to esteemed Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867-Jan. 16, 1957) and his wife, Carla di Martini (Aug. 7, 1877-June 23, 1951).

On Friday afternoon, May 18, 1979, Mayor Mario Laureti (mayorship July 29, 1975- Aug. 11, 1980) held the ceremony for the unveiling of the crypt sheltering the urn with the rest of Thomas Schippers' ashes. The unveiling ceremony was followed by a memorial concert by RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI) at Spoleto's Teatro Nuovo. The concert was conducted by Italian composer, conductor and pianist Gabriele Ferro (born Nov. 15, 1935) and featured Italian lyric soprano Margherita Rinaldi (Jan. 12, 1935-Sep. 7, 2023), Peruvian tenor Ernesto Palacio (born Oct. 19, 1946) and Italian tenor Antonio Savastano (Feb. 9, 1948-Dec. 17, 1991), as reported by Comune di Spoleto journalist Davide Fabrizi in "Long Ago in Spoleto: 18 May 1979, the city tributes Thomas Schippers," published June 17, 2021, on the Comune di Spoleto website. The memorial program included Canto sulla morte di Haydn by Italian Classical and Romantic composer Luigi Cherubini (Sep. 14, 1760-March 15, 1842), according to Nancy Spada ("Thomas Schippers in Cincinnati: A Forgotten Episode in the Life of a Conductor Renowned for Opera," page 22).

Plaque, with dedication, Qui Sono Custodite Le Ceneri di Thomas Schippes 1930 1977 (Here Are Kept the Ashes of Thomas Schippers 1930 1977), for crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes in wall of Piazza del Duomo, Spoleto, Perugia province, Umbria region, central Italy; Sunday, July 15, 2018, 19:41, image of crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes: Antonella Nigro, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Sunday, October 1, 2023

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.

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.

Dedication

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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