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- noun Plural form of
phalarope .
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Examples
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Dunlins come from Asia; red-necked phalaropes from Chile; arctic terns from Antarctica; and bar-tailed godwits from New Zealand.
The Flight Steve Ersinghaus 2009
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Storm petrels Oceanodroma spp. and phalaropes Phalaropus spp. visit from the ocean to feed.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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In other news, the avocets and phalaropes are here.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006
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The Bosque on the Rio Grande is dry so can't see the usual Arctic collection of Yellowlegs, other "Tringas", phalaropes etc.
Migration Meme 2006
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After a breakfast of stewed phalaropes, whose tender, plover-like flesh was a pleasing change from the hitherto almost unvaried roast sea-fowl diet of the last week, the boat was drawn out upon the level platform near the hut, and removing her side and covering boards, the party held
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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What a story he could tell of his life among the phalaropes and jelly-fishes!
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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Fifty-three per cent of the food of twenty-eight northern phalaropes from one locality consisted of mosquito larvae.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Of birds we saw some terns and gulls, and even far out at sea a pretty large number of phalaropes -- the most common kind of bird on the coast of the
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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A large number of seals were visible among the ice, and along with the cormorant a few other birds, principally phalaropes.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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No bird which is not properly web-footed has any business to think itself either true duck or true gull; but as, both in size and habit of life, the larger grebes and phalaropes are entirely aquatic and marine, I shall take out of them into my class of dabchicks, only those which are literally dabblers in habit, and chickens in size.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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