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| Image Description: |
Red-necked Phalarope on the water |
| Image notes: |
A Phalarope swims at the mires of Funzie |
| Species in Image: |
Red-Necked Phalarope |
| Date: |
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| Area: |
Fetlar |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00869 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Red-Necked Phalarope |
| Latin Name |
Phalaropus lobatus |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Scolopacidae |
| Common Family Name |
Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits, Curlews & Phalaropes |
| Description |
This beautiful little wader nests mainly on one island (Fetlar) in the Shetland group. It's numbers, keenly observed each year by wardens, are steady at the moment. |
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